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Homemade Organic Old-Fashioned Apple Pie

Here’s What You’ll Need:

  • 3 cups Homemade Organic Basic Pastry Mix and 5-7 Tbsp. unchlorinated and unfluoridated cold water OR Homemade Organic English Pastry Crust
  • 6 or 7 organic apples, cored and thinly sliced
  • 3/4 – 1 cup organic granulated cane sugar
  • 2 Tbsp. organic unbleached white flour
  • 1 dash of Real Salt
  • 1 tsp. organic ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp. organic ground nutmeg
  • 2 Tbsp. organic pasture butter

Here’s How I do it:

  1. Preheat the oven to 400° Fahrenheit.
  2. Combine the pastry mix with the water 1 Tbsp at a time until the pastry is formed.
  3. Roll the pastry into 1/8″ thickness and place into a 9″ pie plate.
  4. Trim the pastry dough at the rim of the pie plate.
  5. Crimp the edges of the dough around the top edge of the pie plate.
  6. Combine the sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt; Mix with sliced apples
  7. Pour the apple mixture into the pie crust.
  8. Top the pie with the other pie crust and cut slits in the crust to allow for the bubbles to escape, or use a cookie cutter to make a shaped hole in the crust and place the cutout elsewhere on the crust.
  9. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes, or until the apples are soft, at 400° Fahrenheit.
  10. Serve this pie slightly warm.
  11. Enjoy!

Homemade Organic Gingerbread Syrup

Here’s What You’ll Need:

  • 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup Homemade Organic Vanilla Sugar
  • 1 cup unchlorinated and unfluoridated water
  • 1 tsp. unsulphured blackstrap molasses
  • 1 tsp. organic ground ginger
  • 1/2 tsp. organic ground allspice
  • 1/2 tsp. organic ground cloves
  • 1/2 tsp. organic ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp. organic ground nutmeg
  • 2 tsp. Homemade Organic Vanilla Extract

Here’s How I do it:

  1. Add all of the ingredients into a chef’s saucepan.
  2. Bring the mixture to a boil while stirring to mix well.
  3. Allow to boil until the mixture lightly coats a spoon.  (This will take approximately 15-20 minutes.)
  4. If you’re unsure if your syrup has cooked long enough, take it off the heat and allow it to cool.  If it needs to cook longer, boil the liquid again.
  5. Store in a glass jar with tight fitting lid in the refrigerator.
  6. Enjoy!

Homemade Organic Pumpkin Pie Spice

Here’s what You’ll Need:

  • 5 Tbsp. organic ground cinnamon
  • 2 tsp. organic ground allspice
  • 2 tsp. organic ground cloves
  • 2 tsp. organic ground nutmeg
  • 2 tsp. organic ground ginger

Here’s How I do it:

  1. Mix all ingredients in a jar with a tight fitting lid.
  2. Shake until well blended.
  3. Transfer into a spice jar.
  4. Enjoy!

Homemade Organic Graham Crackers

This recipe doesn’t use Graham flour, but the whole wheat flour turned out just fine.  If you’re a purist, use organic Graham flour instead of the whole wheat flour.  This is a slightly adapted version of Alton Brown’s recipe which can be found at Food Network.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

  • 1 1/4 cup organic whole wheat flour
  • 1/4 cup organic non-bleached white flour
  • 1/3 cup organic light brown sugar
  • 3/4 tsp. Homemade Baking Powder
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp. Real Salt
  • 1/8 tsp. organic ground cinnamon
  • 6 Tbsp. organic pasture butter, cut into 1/4-inch cubes and chilled
  • 1/3 cup organic blackstrap molasses
  • 3 Tbsp. organic grass-fed whole milk
  • 1/2 tsp. Homemade Organic Vanilla Extract

Here’s How I do it:

  1. Place both flours, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon into a medium-sized mixing bowl.
  2. Add the butter and mix until the mixture resembles cornmeal.
  3. Add the molasses, milk and vanilla extract and process until the dough forms a ball, approximately 1 minute.
  4. Press the ball into a 1/2-inch thick disk, cover with a tea towel, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  5. Preheat the oven to 325° Fahrenheit.
  6. Take the chilled dough and place it onto a large piece of parchment paper and top with a second sheet of parchment paper.
  7. Roll the dough out until it is 1/8-inch thick.
  8. Slide the rolled dough and parchment paper onto a half sheet pan.
  9. Remove the top sheet of parchment paper.
  10. Cut the dough, using a pizza cutter, into 2-inch square pieces by making vertical and then horizontal cuts all the way across the dough.
  11. Trim off any excess.
  12. Using a fork, poke holes all over the top of the dough.
  13. Leave the crackers on the pan and bake on the middle rack of the oven for 25 minutes or until the edges just start to darken.
  14. Remove from the oven, set the sheet pan with the crackers on a cooling rack and allow to cool completely.
  15. Once completely cool, break into individual crackers.
  16. Store in an airtight glass container for up to 2 weeks.
  17. Enjoy!