instead of making your own pastry ,you can use packaged puff pastry

Ingredients
Serves: 8
pastry
1½ cups plain flour
3/4 cup SR flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
250g unsalted butter
1/4 cup sour cream




Lemon juice for sprinkling over apples
5 large Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and sliced
½ cup white sugar
2 tablespoons plain flour
2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon lemon juice
1 egg, beaten

Preparation method

Prep:1 hour 15 mins | Cook:45 mins

1.Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease a 23cm pie dish.

2.To make pastry: In a large bowl, combine flours, salt and sugar. Rub or cut in butter and shortening until coarse crumbs are formed.

3.Mix in sour cream and lemon juice. Keep mixing until dough forms a ball, (dough may be slightly lumpy), this is fine.

4.Wrap dough ball in plastic wrap and allow to chill for 1 hour.

5.Once chilled, take dough out of refrigerator and cut it in half; keep one half covered and in the refrigerator. Roll dough to 3mm thickness. To lift pastry onto pie dish, roll dough around rolling pin and then unroll into pie dish. Trim overhanging edges of pie base.

6.To Make Filling: Place apples into pie shell. In a small bowl, combine sugar, flour and nutmeg. Mix together thoroughly. Sprinkle mixture over apples. Sprinkle some lemon juice over apples.

7.Brush outer edge of bottom pastry with beaten egg.roll out rest of pastry and place on top of pie and crimp pie shell edges together. Brush entire top crust with egg and cut 4 steam slots into it.

8.Bake in a preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until golden brown. Allow pie to completely cool before serving. Serve warm with whipped cream or vanilla