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Cranberry and Apple Pie
By : Dhivya Karthik
Category : Desserts
Servings : 2
Time Taken : 15-30 mins
Rating :
Method
  1. For the crust, sift the flour and salt.
  2. Add the butter and fat and rub well.
  3. Stir in enough water to make it into a dough.
  4. Divide it into 2 equal balls, wrap and chill for at least 20 min.
  5. Put the orange rind and juice in a bowl. Peel and core the apples and grate them into the bowl.
  6. Stir in cranberries, raisins, walnuts,sugar,brown sugar and flour.
  7. Preheat Oven to 400 F. Roll out one ball of dough about 1/8 inch thick.
  8. Tranfer to a 9 �inch pie pan and trim.
  9. Spoon the cranberry and apple mixture into the case.
  10. Roll out remaining dough to a circle and with a serrated pastry wheel ( I jus used a knife ) to cut into the dough into 10 strips.
  11. Place 5 strips horizontally across the top of the tart at 1 inch intervals.
  12. Weave in remaining 5 and trim.
  13. Sprinkle the top with sugar
  14. Bake for 20 min. Reduce the heat to 350 and Bake until crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbling about 15-20 min more.

Courtesy: http://chefinyou.com/

Ingredients:
For Pastry:
2 1/2 cups - all purpose flour
� cup - shortening, cut into pieces ( thanks to alton brown, i used the crisco all-vegetable shortening which has 0 trans fat)
� tsp - salt
6 tbsp - cold butter, cut into pieces ( i reduced this and increased shortening with water for healthier reasons )
4 to 8 tbsp - cold water

For Filling:
1 1/3 cups - cranberries ( i used almost 2! more the merrier)
1 cup - superfine sugar ( i used � ) generous
� cup - dark brown sugar ( i used 1/4 )
� cup - raisins
2 - large cooking apples ( i used the green variety )
1 - orange of grated rind
3 tbsp - orange juice ( i din�t have oranges..i used lemons instead )
4 tbsp - chopped walnuts
1 tbsp - flour

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