Sheila's Apple Pie

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 1/2-3 lbs mixed apples (6 large, 6-7 cups sliced)
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 tablespoons butter
• pastry for double-crust pie

Recipe

• 1 quarter, core and peel apples.
• 2 slice apples into a large bowl making sure not to cut them too thin.
• 3 toss apples with lemon juice.
• 4 in a small bowl, stir together sugar, flour, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. pour over fruit and toss well to coat evenly.
• 5 roll out pastry for lower crust; fit loosely into a 9-inch or 10-inch pie plate.
• 6 pile fruit into lower crust and dot with bits of butter.
• 7 roll out pastry for upper crust and fold in half. slash a few times across fold to create vents for escape of steam.
• 8 lay pastry over fruit and trim 1/2 inch beyond edge of plate.
• 9 tuck upper crust under lower crust all around the edge and flute with fingers to seal, or seal by pressing down with tines of a fork all around the edge.
• 10 bake in a very well preheated 450 degree fahrenheit oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until fruit is tender and crust is nicely browned.