Apple pie with meringue

Apple pie with meringue 

I had the idea of making this pie watching a TV show on the Italian television. I change a little bit the recipe according what I had at home and also I had no quantities of the ingredients and I had to improvise. I love to improvise :)

Ingredients


puff paste
3 apples
80ml milk
80ml cream
raisins
rum
3 eggs
100g of sugar
cinnamon
1 lemon
4 spoons of water
pinch of salt


Procedure


Peel the apples and cut them in to small pieces, add some lemon juice, if not they will oxidise. Wash the raisins and soak in the rum, after 10 minutes or even better 30 minutes strain them and add it to the pieces apples.

In a container mix 80 ml of milk, 80 ml of cream and the 2 yolks and 1 egg.

Grease baking the tin or use some parchment paper, cover it with the puff paste (I bought it) and fill it with the apples, raisins and cover every thing with the cream of milk and cream.
Put in the oven for 20 - 30 minutes at 180 degrees.

Meringue


When the pie is in the oven we make the meringue from the 2 whites.

Put the 4 spoons of water and 100g of sugar in a pen and put in on a medium hit. The sugar will melt, cook for 5 minutes until the syrup will start to  thicken. If you take a small amount of the syrup it will be sticky. Caution, the syrup will be very hot!

In a bowl with the electric mixer beat the two egg whites and a pinch of salt until foamy. Slowly add the syrup while you are beeting the whites and continue to beat the whites until they hold soft peaks. Take the pie from the oven and put the meringue on it. I simply did this with a spoon. I prefer if the meringue is not uniform as you can see on the picture.

Bake the pie for another 20 - 25 minutes on 120 degrees and never exceed 150 degrees. After this the meringue will be dry and the pie will be ready.