Gluten Free Pastry

Melt in your mouth Pastry!!!

Apple Pie Recipe
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Add an egg and 2 tbspn sugar to pastry recipe (use unsalted butter btw)
Mix together 140g Golden Caster Sugar, 1tsp Cinnamon and 3 tbsp Cornflour/Cornstarch together
Chop into strips and then in half 750-800g Bramley Apples (approx 3)
Add Sugar mixture to apples
Line a pie dish with the pastry
Place apple-sugar mixture in pie dish
Make another disc of pastry for the top of the pie (put cuts in for air)
Place pie into a preheated oven of 180c for 30mins(this is fan assisted, change according to oven type)
Cool for 15 mins and serve!

Like a few others my pastry was very hard using this recipe but by adding an extra ounce of fat,an egg and just 3 or 4 teaspoons of water I now make better pastry than when I used "proper" flour (only trouble is that now I make jam tarts a few times a week...at the expense of my waistline)

Tried this recipe with 1 egg and 2 tbsp sugar for apple and blackberry pie. Having just started my son on a gluten/wheat free diet, this was my first attempt at pastry. Relieved and impressed - good texture and flavour - and the rest of the family enjoyed the pie too.

I used this recipe with gram flour a egg and cooken to make a steak pie, wow it was so good, I haven't had pie in years and it tasted better than I could have hoped for.

Followed the suggestions below and this turned out brilliant. I added an egg and 8 teaspoons of water. And i used self raising flour (Doves Gluten Free) My son only started on a wheat free diet less than 2 weeks ago and i made cheese and onion pie for him using this pastry. It worked brilliantly crumbly melt in the mouth pastry.

I made this recipe to make a pie, it looked good when it came out of the oven. When it came to cutting it, it was so hard I could hardly get the knife into it. Please can anyone shed any light as I have a batch of mince pies to make for Christmas that have to be Gluten free, starting to panic !!!!! I gave it 1 star because it just didn't work for me.

Made 2 batches of this pastry this afternoon for sausage rolls... brilliant!! Adjusted mixture from the other helpful comments; used gram flour and an egg to bind! Also used soya marg and they are delicious!

re ms craig, suggest you try shortning ie. trex from asda instead of butter and use sr flour, or 50-50 gram.

Made this this morning for some sausage rolls and was very impressed. I added the egg and substituted part of the flour with gram flour. I also used bread flour (as this was all I had) I found that this stayed together better than any of the other recipes I have used before and tasted lovely! Thanks to all the comments on amending the ingredient much appreciated.

I made this using a whole egg, and the pastry turned out perfectly, my brother-in-law has since tried and is very impressed!