Preparing is very easy. I made the lard myself when I melted bacon and made cracklings. You can also buy it from the market, it's very cheap.
The apples I used were those I picked myself several weeks ago when me and my family were picking apples in the Resen region. I had about 10 or more kilos and I decided to use some to make this beautiful pie.
Ingredients for filling:
- 4-5 larger grated apples
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons of sugar
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar (10 g)
- 2 eggs
- 150 g of sugar
- 1 vanilla sugar (10 g)
- grated lemon zest
- 1 baking powder (10 g)
- 350 g of flour
- 150 g of lard
- Mix all the dough ingredients with a spoon. Then knead it shortly just to connect all ingredients and form a ball. Place in the refrigerator for 40 minutes.
- In the meantime, prepare the filling: grate apples put them to fry in a pan until they have evaporated the water. No need to add oil. Add sugar, vanilla sugar and cinnamon and mix.
- Prepare the baking pan, I used number 26: cover it with thin layer of butter and sprinkle flour.
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator and split it into two parts.
- Spread one part in the pan with your hands and while doing this, place the other dough in the freezer.
- Apply the filling over the dough, and spread the second part of the
dough onto a floured surface, stretch it into a circular shape and cut it into strips. Slowly order stripe
by stripe as in the picture.If the stripes are easily torn, reknead dough and add more flour.
- Bake in a heated oven at 160 C degrees for about 45 minutes.
