From Soot's oven · Easy apple pie with a woven top
Plum's Lattice Pie
Plum keeps the lanterns lit and the pies latticed. The weaving is the whole fun of it — over, under, over, under, all the way across.
Serves 8 · 1 hour 15 minutes
You'll need
- •2 rolled pie crusts (shop-bought is perfectly honest)
- •6 apples, peeled and sliced thin
- •1/2 cup sugar
- •2 tablespoons flour
- •1 teaspoon cinnamon
- •A squeeze of lemon
- •1 tablespoon butter, in little pieces
How to make it
- 1
Warm the oven to 375°F (190°C).
- 2
Toss the apples with the sugar, flour, cinnamon and lemon until every slice is coated.
- 3
Lay one crust in the pie dish and pile the apples in. Dot the butter over the top.
- 4
Cut the second crust into strips about a thumb wide.
- 5
Weave the strips: lay half one way, then thread the rest over, under, over, under. Pinch the edges shut.
- 6
Bake 45–55 minutes, until the lattice is gold and the filling bubbles at the seams. Let it rest before slicing.
Pip's job: the weaving. Over, under, over, under — and pinching the edge all the way round.
Grown-up job: the peeling knife and the oven.
"Plum says a lattice is just a lot of small strips agreeing to hold something up. Sounds like a village to me." — Soot
Soot Bakes It All
The book this kitchen came from — Soot bakes her way through the first snow, and the whole hill turns up hungry.
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