Mama Thornton's Peach Pie
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for bench and cutters
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 2 sticks chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 4 tablespoons ice water, plus more as needed
- 10 ripe but firm peaches
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon or pinch ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 3 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 egg
- Special equipment: fluted pizza cutter or fluted ravioli cutter
- Cook's Note: You can increase the amount of sugar to 1 1/4 cups, depending upon the sweetness of the peaches.
- Peak summer peaches will only need 1 cup.
- For the crust: In a food processor, combine the flour, sugar, salt and cold butter.
- Pulse the processor until the mixture resembles fine sand.
- Remove the lid and add the ice water to the mixture.
- Run the processor just until the mixture rolls itself into a little ball.
- If the mixture is a bit dry, add more ice water by the tablespoonful until it comes together.
- Gather the dough into a ball.
- With a bench scraper or knife, divide the mixture evenly in half.
- Shape each half into a disk.
- Wrap each disk in plastic wrap and chill at least 30 minutes.
- At this point you can keep the wrapped dough in the refrigerator for a few days or freeze for later use.
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
- Flour your rolling pin and roll out 1 pie crust to about a 12-inch round and drape over a 9 1/2-inch fluted pie plate.
- Roll out the other pie crust to about a 10-inch round, and cut this into 1-inch strips with a fluted pizza cutter.
- For the filling: Peel and cut the peaches into 1/4-inch thick slices (you should have about 7 cups) and toss with the lemon juice and almond extract in a large bowl.
- Whisk the flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in another bowl, making sure there are no lumps.
- Stir the flour mixture into the peaches and mix well.
- Pour the peaches into the pie crust.
- Scatter with the pieces of butter.
- Top with the lattice strips.
- Brush away any flour underneath the lattice to make sure it seals well.
- Crimp the edges to seal.
- Beat the egg with 1 teaspoon water and brush the lattice and edges with the egg wash.
- Pop in the oven and bake for 10 minutes, and then lower the heat to 350 degrees F and bake until the crust gets brown, about 50 minutes more.
- If the edges brown too fast, cover them with strips of aluminum foil about halfway through baking.
- Cool about 30 minutes before serving.
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Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/anne-thornton/mama-thorntons-peach-pie-recipe.html (may not work)