Best Apple Pie Recipe

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Best Apple Pie Recipe

Filling for Apple Pie

10 -12 tart green apples

1 tablespoon cornstarch

3/4 cup sugar

2 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

Peel, core, and thinly slice the apples and place in a pot over low heat. Mix the cinnamon, sugar and cornstarch in a bowl. Sprinkle the mixture over the apples and stirwell.

Cover the apples and cook on low heat until they cook down, about 30 minutes. Stir often. Let cool before pouring into pie crust.

Homemade Pie Crust:

9 inch pie plate

2 1/4 cups twice sifted white flour

2/3 cup shortening, cooled in refrigerator

1 tsp. salt

7 - 8 tablespoons of ice water

Directions:

In a bowl, sift 2 1/4 cups of flour (that was sifted twice), salt and shortening. Cut shortening into flour with a pastry blender until it looks like little pebbles.

Add 3 tablespoons of ice water to the mixture. Stir and mix with a fork. Continue adding 1 tablespoon of water at a time and mix until all the flour is moistened.

The dough should be moist enough to stick together but not real sticky. Press dough into a ball with your hands.

Do not handle the dough too much.

Cut the dough in half and put one half of it in a bowl and cover with a damp moist paper towel.

Roll out the bottom dough and place in a 9 inch pie plate.

Add the cooked apple filling and dot with 2 tablespoons butter.

Roll out the top crust and fold into quarters. Make six slits in the top crust and place over the apple pie.

Trim excess dough from the edges. Fold the top crust under the bottom and seal. Flute the edge of the pie.

Cover the edge of the pie with strips of foil. Place pie on a cookie sheet in a 425 degree preheated over for 50 minutes. Remove the foil strips after the first 30 minutes.

For variety you can add fresh or frozen blueberries to the apple mixture right before pouring the apples into the pie crust.

My best apple pie recipe is delicious served warm with vanilla ice cream.

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