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Evelyn's Apple Pie

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Ingredients
  

Pastry

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2/3 cup plus a little more Crisco (no substitutes)
  • 4 tablespoons ice water

Filing

  • 6 good sized apples peeled, cored and sliced thin
  • 3/4 cup sugar (a little less if using sweet apples)
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • pinch of salt
  • butter as needed

Instructions
 

Pastry

  • Mix the first three ingredients until all the flour is combined and looks like cornmeal.
  • Then add ice water a little at a time and lightly use your hands to bring up dry parts of flour to get the water. (You may need a few drops more).
  • Form the mixture into a ball, lightly handled.
  • Cut into 2 parts and roll out one part and put in pie pan.

Filling

  • Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
  • Stir ingredients together and pour in pan. Dot with some butter.
  • Roll out the other half of the pastry and place on top of pie, sealing the edges and making a pretty design.
  • Prick the top to let steam out and juice bubble up.
  • Bake for 45 to 50 minutes. (TIP: Cover the edges with foil so they won’t brown too much.)
  • Check from time to time and remove foil for the last few minutes.