Shopping, Cleaning, and Making an AWESOME Apple Galette!

[Music] good morning everyone I am so happy to see you again we are having an unseasonably warm day today and to take advantage of the weather I think we should apply another coat of that Spar urethane to the Victorian front doors and my friend Victoria is going to perform her annual piano recital here this weekend so we need to do some cleaning in the music room and for a two time treat we are going to make a glorious apple gallette and we can start with the crust I need one and 1/2 cups of regular allpurpose flour that's about 195 G put that right into my food processor then I need a half2 cup or 113 G of cold diced butter a pinch of salt and since this is a sweet crust I'm going to add two tpoon of sugar you could add more sugar if you like or you could omit the sugar entirely then I want to pulse the machine just to break up the butter then I'm going to add 1/4 cup or 60 Ms of ice cold water while the machine is running and I will run the machine just until a clumpy dough forms if the dough holds its shape when pressed with the fingers you know the dough is ready me put this away grab my marble board here we can form this crumbly Mass into a ball flatten the ball into a disc and then we can wrap the disc in cling film I'm going to tuck this into the refrigerator because the dough needs to chill for 30 to 60 minutes and while the dough is chilling we can run to the local apple orchard to buy some apples for our gallette what if the world had more of your smile what [Music] if welcome to Golden Harvest Farms it's one of my favorite Hudson Valley haunts besides Myriad apples Golden Harvest also sells various jams and jellies we can melt some of this red currant jelly and use it to glaze our apple [Music] gallette and just look at all of the apples that were grown right here at the farm I purchased a basket of honey crisp Apples because I enjoy them with oatmeal for breakfast and I selected Golden Delicious apples for the glette golden delicious is a good baking apple by which I mean the Apple holds its shape during baking [Music] we are home again here are the Golden Delicious apples that we bought at Golden Harvest Farm I love bringing you on trips to Golden Harvest Farm they grow so many different varieties of apples they even have a Distillery there that would be a fun fi trip for us to make now let me grab my pastry dough and we need to roll this dough into a 12in diameter circle I'm using my pastry cloth here just have to add a little flour and then we need to rub the flour into the cloth pastry cloths are are great because pastry dough just does not stick to them this dough has been chilling for about 45 minutes to 1 hour so it is very firm I need to make it more malleable and the easiest way to do that is to mash it several times with a rolling pin I always Shore up the edge of the dough little flour on my pastry I'm using a French rolling pin here French rolling pin has tapered ends it's perfect for Rolling circular shapes such as you would want for a pie or a tart or a pizza when I roll dough I always start in the center and then roll to within about a/2 inch from the edge in other words I do not roll over the edge so you roll and then you give the dough a quarter turn roll again quarter turn and I know this pastry is not over mixed because I can see specks of butter throughout the dough one more inch to [Music] go going to transfer this pastry to a rimless baking sheet if you don't have a rimless baking tray you can always use a rim tray turned upside down unfold it and then we can pop this into the refrigerator just long enough to clean and peel and core and slice three apples so my apples are cleaned up I just have to peel them probably the fastest way to peel Apples by hand is to use one of these y peelers and first remove the top peel then the bottom peel and then run the peeler down the sides I do have an automatic apple corter peeler slicer machine which you have seen me use but it slices the apples I think too thinly for the scallet and that's why I'm doing everything by hand joyfully now we can core the apples I have one of these old-fashioned Apple corers here I have some melted butter here that we will need later and my apples are perfectly CED going to have them then I'm going to slice these crosswise into roughly 1/4 in [Music] slices I need my dough and here it is along with a tub of corn starch because I will be spreading some corn starch on the center of the pastry corn starch is great for absorbing fruit juices or for thickening fruit juices and I will post this recipe in the description box below so I'm going to add about a tablespoon and a half of the corn starch here spread it out to within an inch of the pastry border now we can arrange the apple slices in concentric [Music] circles if you have any apples left over just eat them now we can fold the dough border over the apples making pleat as we [Music] go I want to brush these apples with the butter we melted earlier then we can sprinkle the apples with a tablespoon or so of sugar you could use a mixture of cinnamon and sugar here this is a teaspoon I'm using so I'm using three teaspoons which equals 1 tablespoon I'm going to bake the scallet until the crust Browns nicely and the apples are definitely tender that will take about 1 hour while the apple glette is baking let's head outside to work on those Victorian front doors if you were with me last week you might recall that my friend Victoria and I painstakingly sanded down these ancient front doors then we sealed them with a coat of Spar urethane today I need to lightly sand the doors just to rough up that first coat of urethane then we can apply a second coat [Music] the cracks you see in these old mahogany doors are only superficial I think the cracks add a bit of character to the doors although you may have a different [Music] opinion now that the doors are roughed up we can run a tack cloth over them a tack cloth is simply a sticky piece of material it picks up the dust from the sanded wood [Music] I'm working in a Southern Exposure and as I mentioned earlier it is an unseasonably warm late October day I had to swap my sweatshirt for a light t-shirt finally we can apply the second coat of The Spar urethane the second coat will really bring the doors to life [Music] well that was a job working on those doors but the weather is warm today day and you really need to apply that Spar urethane during a warm day otherwise this stuff can gum up and we came in just in time because our apple gallette is [Music] ready looks beautiful and now while the glette is still hot I want to glaze it with the red currant jelly that you and I bought together at Golden Harvest Farm red currant jelly is one of those items that you used to be able to find in every Supermarket but these days I think it's really only available in certain shops of course it's probably available at places like Whole Foods but I don't have a Whole Foods anywhere near me no Whole Foods no Sam's Club no Costco that's why you always see me shopping at local independent shops I'm going to pop this into the microwave for about 15 seconds because I want to melt the jelly [Music] this red currant jelly is giving the glette a gorgeous Sheen it's nice and glossy and I can assure you that painting red currant jelly onto an apple glette is a lot more fun than painting Spar urethane onto Victorian doors here is why I wanted to use a rimless baking sheet I can slide the glette right onto a cutting board and while the glette is cooling we can head into the music room room I need to polish the piano that Victoria will be playing this weekend we are expecting 34 guests for Victoria's concert this weekend to provide ample seating I gathered chairs from the dining room The Parlor and the entrance hall and moved them into the music room [Music] to clean the highly polished Yamaha Grand I first dust it with a dry microfiber cloth [Music] then I rub the piano with a Polish that is intended for high glass posos [Music] [Music] now we can attempt to polish the piano's brass petals I purchased a small tub of Twinkle copper and brass polish for this job [Music] well the twinkle brass cleaner sort of cleaned the petals but it did not clean them 100% fortunately my piano technician is coming tomorrow so I can ask him what he recommends for the pedals as I mentioned earlier since all of the dining room chairs are now in the music room this is a golden opportunity to dust and thoroughly vacuum this room [Music] well between the Victorian doors and polishing the piano and dusting and vacuuming this room I think we deserve the apple gallette and a cup of tea I'm going to serve Tiara Farm Irish Breakfast tea with this scallet if I Irish Breakfast Tea doesn't pick me up nothing will and while the tea is steeping I'm going to cut myself a nice Big Slice from this apple gallette it is such a nice day outside I think we should enjoy our tea and our glette in the herb [Music] garden I love this Irish Breakfast Tea because the way I brew it it is very strong taste test I love everything about this apple gallette I love the tender flaky all better pastry crust I love the locally grown Golden Delicious apples and I love that glaze of red currant jelly again I will post the recipe for this gallette in the description box below thank you so much for keeping me company today as we shopped for local apples and we sanded and applied another coat of sealant to the ancient front doors and we polished the piano that will be used in this weekend's concert and we thoroughly vacuumed the dining room and we made this wonderful tea time treat we film a lot of cooking gardening decorating and just general lifestyle video on this channel so if you have not yet subscribed I hope you will do so and be sure to tap the little bell icon so that you can receive notifications every time I upload a new video again thank you so much for joining me and I will see you in the next episode bye for now friends [Music]