The second recipe I made with the Tuesdays with Dorie: Baking with Dorie group is Apple Pandowdy and can be found in the Baking with Dorie book on pages 257-259. We had the choice of this recipe or the one for English Muffins on page 24, I’ll post the English Muffins next time.
Apple Pandowdy ingredients: apples, sugar, lemon, butter, flour, and salt.
As described in the book, an apple pandowdy is a sort of apple pie with only a top crust. I had never made, or even eaten, one of these before, so I was happy to learn some new things with this recipe. The recipe gives a great deal of freedom in your choice of how you would like to present the crust on the top of this pie…anything from a full crust to bits and pieces of leftover dough, to shapes and designs. I wanted to see the apples beneath so I just went with a simple round of cut out dough to let the apples peek out all around the edges of the pie. This was good in that we loved those bits of crusty tops on the apples peeking out, but maybe not as attractive as would be hoped. I missed the cinnamon flavor associated with an apple pie, but we did love the lemon, such a surprise of deep lemon flavor. This pie dough recipe tastes more like sugar cookie dough than pie crust to me, and I had to bake it much longer for it to get any color at all despite the brushing of milk and sprinkling of sanding sugar on top.
All in all, it was a delightfully delicious desert and worthy of my time and efforts. I did enjoy learning new things with this recipe and I’m probably going to make it again at some point. Lemon Apple Pie, what a deal.
If you would like to join in, just make it, bake it, and leave a link to your post at the Tuesdays with Dorie website: click here. At the website you will find the postings for the current recipe, the list of recipes chosen each month, and some baking chit chat that is definitely helpful as well as fun. Currently there are two groups baking at this website: this one, Baking with Dorie (BWD), and one that is in its final year, Dorie’s Cookies (DC), which uses recipes from that book. We don’t publish Dorie's recipes here, but you can buy the book and have them all at your fingertips, what a deal!