Cookbook Table of Contents

Apple Pie

Ingredients

6 C tart apples
1 C sugar (Alternate is ¾C white + ¼C brown)
2 T all-purpose flour
1 t cinnamon
dash nutmeg
1/2 t lemon juice (optional)
  butter

Preparation

  1. Mix apples, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg together
  2. Add lemon juice if apples are not tart.
  3. Pour into Grandma Marlene's Pie Crust
  4. Add slices of butter to the top of the apples
  5. Add more of Grandma Marlene's Pie Crust to the top of the pie.
  6. Cut pretty design into top of pie crust.
  7. Brush top of pie crust with egg white and water mixture
  8. Mix cinnamon bakers sugar together then sprinkle on top of pie crust.
  9. Sprinkle a little RAW sugar (crystals) on the top.

  10. Bake 450 degrees for 10 minutes and then turn the oven down to 350 degrees for 45 to 55 minutes.

Notes:

  1. I add a pizza stone to the oven to stabilize the heat at 350.

  2. Mom suggest adding a little flour and sugar to bottom of pie crust... before adding apples to absorve liquid.

  3. Refrigerate crust while preparing filling

  4. Don't over fill pie with apples. Stick to recipe - 6

  5. Marlene taught me to use Granny Smith apples. They are delecious but soft and may not be firm after cooking.

  6. Apple Varieties Suggestions (Best to Worst) "from internet"
    • Jonagold
    • Honeycrisp
    • Braeburn
    • Mutsu
    • Gala
    • Golden Delicious
    • Pink
    • Gravensteins

  7. Apple Varieties NOT to use "from interent"