Gluten Free Mini Hawthorn Crab Apple Pies

• Crust
• 3/4 buckwheat flour (or wild rice flour)
• 1/2 chestnut starch or starch acorn starch ( or arrowroot starch)
• 1/4 oat flour (or amaranth flour)
• 8 tbsp butter
• 3/4 tsp birch gum or maple gum powder (sugar gum tree gum)
• 1/2 cup + more apple cider is best but can use water
• filling :
• 2 cups european apples choped (with skin on) or hawthorn crab apples
• birch or maple sugar or poplar sugar ( sugar gum tree sugar)
• (ground spicewood & carolina anise leaves crushed)
• apple cider or cream
• hazelnut extract optional

1. combine dough ingredients
2. prepare apple filling mix all ingredients together bring to a slow boil cook till thick and apples jel but are not apple sauce .
3. roll dough out on a gluten free floured surface cut using a biscuit cutter spoon 1tbsp fillin in middle seal with a egg wash on the edges fold in half press sides down using a fork sprinkle with tree sugar and (and ground spicewood)

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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/gluten-free-mini-hawthorn-crab-apple-pies-52044611 (may not work)