🍎 🥧 Nov. 19th Dutch Apple Mennonite Pie with Jo Snyder and Mom | 1pm EST
🍎 🥧 Nov. 19th Dutch Apple Mennonite Pie with Jo Snyder and Mom | 1pm EST
Bake along as we learn this classic fall dish from Jo's cookbook. Consider making a donation to our fundraiser for World Central Kitchen
Hello Chefs,
After a short sabbatical, we’re back for a special holiday edition! This November and December, we’re returning with a few special classes. We’ve missed this community and hope you'll gather with us (cameras on!) in your kitchens to learn culinary traditions from each other.
This season, we’ll be supporting World Central Kitchen and hope you’ll consider making a donation when you join our class. Any amount can make an impact to feed people impacted by disasters around the world.
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About The Dish
Hands down my favourite pie. It’s sweet and creamy. When I was a kid I worked at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market stall for the Stone Crock Bakery and we used to make giant trays of these and cut them into big squares. Every Saturday morning I would waffle between a tea ball sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, a warm veggie cheese bun, and one of these delicious squares. The Dutch apple square almost always won. Here is the original, but plant-based, pie version. Makes one 9-inch diameter pie.
As a guest at this class, we ask that you consider making a donation to our community fundraiser for World Central Kitchen, an organization that provides food to people in emergencies around the world.
You will receive a Zoom link to this virtual event closer to the event date.
About Our Teacher
Jo Snyder is a communications professional, editor, writer and loves to cook big meals for her family and friends. After inheriting her Grandmother’s well-loved and well-used copy of the Mennonite Community Cookbook, a staple in many Mennonite home, she was inspired to blend her cultural roots and plant-based values on a collection of her childhood favourites, honouring both the past and the present in her recent book The Vegan Mennonite Kitchen available now on pandorapress.com.
Join us on Nov. 19th at 1pm EST for our baking adventures!
Recipe and Ingredients
Ingredients
For the pie crust
2 ¼ cup cake and pastry flour
½ teaspoon salt
⅔ cups plant-based butter, room temperature
⅓ cup cold water
For the filling and the crumble top
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
4 tablespoons plant-based butter
4 cups apples cored, peeled and sliced (don’t go fancy with the apples, never use Red Delicious. Try a good old McIntosh.)
4 tablespoons of soy cream or soy milk for the top (Silk coffee creamer works best)
Directions
For the pie crust
In a mixing bowl, combine flour and salt.
Cut the plant-based butter into the flour with a pastry blender or two knives. You want the mixture to be the size of peas.
Add the water slowly, sprinkling 1 tablespoon at a time over the mixture.
Toss lightly with a fork. This shouldn’t be sticky or wet at all but everything should be dampened. Use only enough water so that the pastry holds together when pressed between your fingers.
Form the dough into a round ball with your hands. Some say you shouldn’t handle pie crust dough too much, but I find if I don’t really get in there with my hands and make a nice dough ball, then it won’t roll out as nicely. So, get in there and make sure it’s mixed well.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out into a circle about ⅛ inch thick and about 1 inch larger than the diameter of the top of your pie plate. You want it to hang over the sides when you place it gently on top so that when you press it into the pan you have full coverage.
Don’t bake the pie shell first if you’re making a Dutch Apple Pie, but if you want to make a pastry shell for a different dessert then bake it at 450°F for 12-15 minutes or until it’s a golden brown.
For the filling and the crumble top
Combine the flour, sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl and then cut in the butter with a pastry blender, two knives, a fork or just get in there with your hands and crumble it up. You don’t want it to be a paste though, so take it easy when you mix.
Put the peeled and sliced apples into the unbaked pie shell. Pinch a little salt and squeeze about a tablespoon of lemon on top.
Then pile on that crumb mixture on top, but don’t press it down too tight. Make sure there’s enough to generously cover everything.
Pour the cream cream evenly over the top of the crumble. You want it to seep down into the apple mixture.
Bake at 375°F for 35 minutes or until it looks and smells good. You want the apples to be soft and the top and inside to be gooey. It should have a creamy, rich taste and feel.
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