Everyone loves apple pie. With vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce is even better. Apple pie just smells like home too for some reason. So, I'm not in America, I'm in Oman. All the better. The expat's cure for homesickness (at least for desert), is a nice homemade apple pie.
At least apples are cheap and fresh here in the produce shops in my town. It was so much fun pealing the apples and making an old-fashioned lattice top just like my Grandma taught me how.
You should try it!
Making a lattice top is easier than it looks actually. You roll out the crust, and then slice it in 1 inch strips. Start with the longest strip and place it across the middle of the pie. Then cross it the other way. Now lift up one side of the first strip you put down and lay another strip down underneath. You have to keep lifting up the strips on one side and placing a strip underneath to give it that criss-cross look that seems impossible to make. Just be careful not to break the crust...but you can always squeeze it back together.
Here's a picture of my finished product. Yum!
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That's awesome that you were able to make an apple pie! Were you able to find the ingredients readily where you are (flour, sugar, etc, in the right form and everything)? Did it end up tasting like your typical American apple pie?
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