APPLE PASTRY BRAID - Bonita's Kitchen

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Welcome to Bonita's Kitchen! Today we will be making APPLE PASTRY BRAID, made with a tasty homemade pastry and stuffed with fresh local apples tossed is a cinnamon mixture. SEE RECIPE BELOW!!! Butter Pastry: https://www.bonitaskitchen.com/recipe/lemon-meringue-pie/ To view & download the full recipe, please view it here on our website: https://www.bonitaskitchen.com Our cookbooks link: https://www.bonitaskitchen.com/cookbook Ingredients: Recipe for PASTRY: 2 cups all-purpose flour ½ cup tender flake pure lard ½ or 1 tsp sea salt ½ cup COLD water Recipe for Apples: 2 apples ¾ cup brown sugar 2 tsp cinnamon ¼ tsp nutmeg ¼ tsp sea salt ½ tsp lemon juice 1 tbsp milk for brushing pastry 1 tbsp flour Recipe for Glaze: 1 cup confectioners sugar 1 tsp lemon juice 4 tsp cold water or milk Method: In a bowl add flour and sea salt, then cut in pure lard until all combined. After slowly add COLD water and mix with mixer or by hand until you form a ball. Cover the pastry ball in clear wrap and put in the fridge for 15 minutes to cool pastry. Then dust counter with flour and place the pastry on it and roll out. Roll it about 16” x 18” longer if you wish. Then with a pizza cutter or knife cut 4 inches by 1½“ on both sides on a angle leaving the middle about 6” wide. Plus the top of pastry leave about 2” so you can flap it over to close opening. SEE VIDEO FOR MORE DETAILS!!! Then peel and cut your apples in wedges, toss in a bowl with lemon juice. Then brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sea salt. Place one or two wedges side by side and all the ways down to the bottom of pastry. Then flap first piece of pastry down over top, then continue one 4” x 1½” piece flapping over each other to braid the pastry until you get to the bottom. The last piece flap under pastry, see video for more details. When done place pastry on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, brush pastry with milk. Then preheat your oven to 375ºf and bake this pastry for 35 to 40 minutes. When baked remove from oven and let rest for 5 minutes, then make your glaze. In a small bowl add confectioners sugar, lemon juice and water or milk……mix together and pour over apple pastry braid…… Thank you for watching Bonita's Kitchen, and don't forget to subscribe for more Traditional Newfoundland Recipes and Cooking!