Recipe video above. Basic Apple Pie recipes just call for piling raw apples in an uncooked pie crust. It will work ... but the crust will have raw patches, be soggy, the apples unevenly cooked and you'll have a giant empty cavity under the pie lid. Hmm.If, like me, that's not good enough for you, make my Perfect Apple Pie! The trick: bake the apples for the filling first and blind bake your crust. Result? Superior flavour, perfectly cooked apple filling, a crispy base and no unsightly gaping…
