I found this recipe in the Houston Chronicle several years ago and it has since become my favorite apple pie recipe. It always turns out good and it is very easy to make. Sometimes I peel the apples and sometimes I don’t-either way works. The original recipe called for the addition of plums…which would probably be yummy, but I have yet to find plums in the grocery this time of the year. Another recipe I have calls for the addition of cranberries. I will probably be making Cranberry Apple Pie for Christmas. (The mention of cranberries reminds me of two wonderfully fun books to read for Thanksgiving and Christmas-Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin and Cranberry Christmas by Wende and Harry Devlin. A good apple-pie book is How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman.)

Favorite Old Fashioned Apple Pie

2 prepared pie crusts

5-6 small apples (I usually use Granny Smith)

1 cup sugar

Dash of salt

2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon McCormick apple pie spice (cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice)

1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ stick butter

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Arrange one crust in bottom of a 9 inch pie dish.  Peel, core and slice apples; layer in pie shell. 

In a small bowl, combine sugar, salt, flour, apple pie spice and cinnamon.  Pour over fruit.  Cut butter in small pieces place on top of dry ingredients.  Top with crust; flute edges.  Prick with fork or cut slits in pie to vent.  Place pie on baking sheet and bake 1 hour. 

Serve warm or cool with ice cream, whipped topping or cheese.

Enjoy!

blessing,

dani

“Thanks be to God…” (2 Corinthians 9:15)