Apple Pie and Pie Crust Recipes

* From the Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook 1968 edition

6 Apples

1 cup Sugar

1/4 teaspoon Salt

2 Tbsp Flour

1 recipe Plain Pastry

1 Tbsp Butter

 

Pare and slice apples. Sift dry ingredients together and mix with apples. Line pie pan with pastry, fill with apple mixture, dot with butter and cover with top crust. 

Bake in a very hot oven (450 degree F) 15 minutes; reduce temperature to moderate (350) and bake 45 minutes longer. Makes 1 (9 inch) pie.

Additional variations:

1- Add 1/4 teaspoon Mace to dry ingredients

2-Add 1 teaspoon Cinnamon to dry ingredients

3- Use Brown or Maple Sugar instead of granulated

 

Plain Pastry

2 cups sifted Flour

3/4 tsp salt

2/3 cup Shortening (we have successfully used margarine)

4 to 6 Tbsp of cold water

 

sift flour and salt together and cut in shortening with 2 knives or pastry blender. Add water using only a small portion at a time, until mixture will hold together.  Divide dough into 2 parts. 

Makes 2 9" pie crusts