Apple Pie With Vanilla Sauce - flour

Method

• Pastry Preparation:
• In a bowl pour flour, sugar, and salt, stir to combine.
• Add the diced butter, knead by hand while gradually adding the water to form a dough ball.
• Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
• Applesauce Preparation:
• Using a peeler, peel 4 apples, and cut into cubes.
• Place in a saucepan with a little water and vanilla bean (make a slit down down the center, so the seeds will come out as it cooks).
• Simmer for 30 minutes. Stir occasionally, crushing apples as they cook.
• Remove vanilla bean, mix, and let cool.
• Roll out the dough and cut out a circle, place in a pie pan. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350F.
• Pinch the edge of the pie crust all the way around. Bake for 15 minutes.
• Let cool.
• Fill pie crust with applesauce.
• In the meantime, peel the remaining 3 apples, and scoop out the centers.
• Cut in thin slices.
• Place apple slices in a spiral on top of apple sauce, forming a rosette.
• In the center, make a rose with smaller pieces of apples.
• Bake the pie 10 to 15 minutes.