for 12 pieces

Pastry dough

1	pastry dough, rolled into a circle

Apple filling

5	apple, thinly sliced
3 tbsp	sugar
1 tsp	Maizena cornflour
2 tbsp	ground hazelnuts
1 tbsp	lemon juice
¼ tsp	cinnamon
¼ tsp	bourbon vanilla powder

Pie

1	pastry dough, rolled into a circle
1	egg yolk, beaten
1 tbsp	sugar

How it's done

Pastry dough

Place the dough in the prepared tin with the baking paper. Prick the base with a fork.

Apple filling

Mix the apples with all the ingredients up to and including the vanilla, spoon onto the pastry dough.

Pie

Cut the dough into strips of varying widths. Plait a few strips into braids. Place the strips and braids on top of the pie in any pattern you like, press down well and brush with egg yolk.

Bake

For approx. 35 mins. in the bottom half of an oven preheated to 200°C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly and serve while still warm.

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