Deep Dish Apple Pie~

If you happen to be dropping by our home in the Fall, you will probably be asked to stay for dinner.  And if you stay for dinner, you will probably be served dessert as well. And if you are served dessert, we will probably serve you a plate of this delicious apple pie. And if you have a bite, you will probably ask for a glass of milk to go with it(fresh cows milk, yes?).

~my version of "If you give a mouse a cookie" :-)

This IS our families favorite recipe for Apple Pie, and we do make it often!

Sit down and let me dish you up a piece!

Makes: 1- 9 or 10 inch pie     ...     My family doubles this to make a 9x13" pie 

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups sugar

1/2 cup all purpose flour

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon salt

12 cups (about 10 medium) thinly slices apples

2 Tablespoons butter

Pastry for 9 inch - 1 crust pie

Stir together sugar, flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt. Spread apples in a 9 or 10 inch glass pie pan. Sprinkle generously with sugar mixture. Dot with butter. Top with pie crust:

Oil Pastry Crust

1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup oil

3-4 Tablespoons cold water

Measure flour and salt into a bowl. Add oil and mix until resembles small peas. Sprinkle in water 1 Tablespoon at a time (if dough is dry, add oil - never add water). Gather dough together, press firmly into ball. Roll out between 2 sheets of wax paper. Remove top sheet, carefully pick up bottom and drape over pie (at this point you could cut a fancy design before draping over pie). Peal the wax paper off the crust. Put slits in crust.

Bake at 425 f  for about 1 hour until juice begins to bubble through slits in crust. Serve warm. Yummy!:-)

It's fun to cut out shapes with miniature cookie cutters.

Mmm.... doesn't that just look amazing?!

Especially good with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or some freshly whipped cream!