Apple Pie Thesis

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For a student, this recipe may prove challenging, and is best executed with a group of willing friends. Apple pie is, besides the hamburger or the Yew York pizza, perhaps the most archetypal American food, and, besides turkey, perhaps the most traditional. This is no doubt because apple pie is delicious, and it is fun to bake. Today in the Student Kitchen we’ll be baking apple pie, but not any apple pie: stuffed apple pie. The ingredients list for this recipe is quite extensive. For the pie crust (New York Times recipe) you will need 2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2/3 cup butter, approximately 1/3 cup water. For a simple filling you will need 5 cups slices apples (you’ll want to cut them thin and short so they fit in the other apples), 2 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice, 2 cups water, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup cornstarch (or flour), 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/8 teaspoon salt. For the stuffer apples, you’ll want 10 large, round apples of any type except golden delicious (too mealy to be a shell). I recommend Empire, Honeycrisp, or Macintosh. …show more content…

All the apples, lemon juice, butter, and possibly sugar will run you anywhere between $15 and $30. After you’ve gathered the ingredients, it’s time to

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