>> Hilah: Hey dudes!
I am Hilah and welcome to Hilah Cooking.
Today I am going to share with y’all my great grandma’s fried apple pies recipe,
and I know I’ve been doing a whole lot fried stuff lately and it’s not very healthy,
but it’s my birthday this week, so to hell with it.
I am gonna eat some fried pies.
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[How to Make Fried Pies]
>> Hilah: All right.
So I’ve got some pie crust here that I made ahead of time.
You can use store bought pie crusts or if you want to video tutorial on it, I made one
of those too, so I will link to that pie crust video.
I am just gonna get this sucker out of its labyrinth of a wrapper here, and then we are
just going to roll this out pretty thin.
When you’re doing fried pies you want to roll out your dough a little bit thinner than
you would for a regular pie because they’re so much smaller, then you’d be able to cook
faster.
Okay.
So this is about, I don’t know, an eighth of an inch thick or so, and then we’re just
going to cut out some three inch circles.
This is not a cookie cutter.
This is a English muffin form, and heaven knows I never have, I never will make my own
English muffins, but that’s what I’m using, like, a tuna can or something with both ends
cut off would be a good size or perhaps you actually own proper cookie cutters.
I don’t know.
I’d be impressed, and then once our circles are cut, I am just gonna roll over each one
a little bit more just to kind of elongate it and make it more of an oval.
Okay now pie faces.
I have my apple pie filling that I already made ahead of time.
All I did was thinly slice one granny smith apple, and I sautéed it in a little bit of
butter over high heat for just a couple of minutes until it was slightly softened, and
then added some sugar and cinnamon and let it cook for another couple of minutes, and
that’s just gonna get the apples a little bit soft and get some of the liquid out of
them so that they don’t bust their seams open when you put them inside the pie.
Just a little old bit of filling.
You don’t want to hold much in there because when you’re doing fried pies unlike baked
pie, baked pies you usually cut some ventilation holes in the top of the crust, but we’re
not going to do that with the fried pie because then all of the delicious apple guts gets
all everywhere in your oil, and it makes a big ole ugly mess, and who wants a big ole
ugly mess on their birthday.
Not this girl!
Okay, that looks good, and then we just seal them up.
I’ve got just a little dish of water here, so we just go around and dab a little bit
of water around the outside edges.
Try to press as much air out as you can as you fold it over and have those edges meet
up, and then just with a little fork, go around and crimp it shut.
Cute!
Our oil is hot ,and I know that because I went like this and it went psheeeewww!
The temperature here is not terribly crucial because we just really need to cook this little
dough, probably shouldn’t use your bare hands.
All right!
Cool!
Just give it a couple of minutes.
All right.
One minute later, well, maybe it was more like two minutes, pretty fast though, maybe
that’s why they’re so popular because their super-duper fast to make.
Cool!
Just until their brown like that on the other side.
God, I’m going to die young.
[laughs] And they’re done!
Now, normally I drain my fried things on a rack, on a pan, but today in honor of my dear
old daddy who is half the reason that I am alive today, I am going to drain them on an
old paper sack like he used to do.
The good thing is that later you can use this paper sack to start fires.
The bad thing is that it’s no longer recyclable, so I don’t know.
I guess [laughs] just think about that.
.All right.
So, obviously these things are hotter than hades, hades.
All right.
Dudes.
Fried pieeeeeeeeeeees!
All right.
These are cooled for a few minutes.
Let me eat this one [crunch].
Um yummmm!
Mmmmmm!
Hell!
That is so good!
It’s sweet and flaky as a hippy girl.
Just kidding hippy girls.
I love you.
Well there you go.
There’s how to make a basic fried pie.
I am gonna post a peach filling recipe on the website too, so you can check that out
if you want a variation.
I hope you try this.
I mean I know it’s real bad for us, and I’m probably going to get heart disease
and stuff, but you know what, I exercise and I don’t smoke, so I figure I can eat fried
pies at least like once a week, especially on my birthday.
So, thanks to you for watching so much, and if you have any questions leave them on the
comments below, and I will get to them as soon as I can.
Thanks!
Bye!
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