This is a revised Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens - NEW COOK BOOK.
I could not follow the recipe and instruction exactly due to lack of skills and equipment.
Double-Crust Apple Pie
Fillings: three cups of backyard apples, half cup of brown sugar, one tablespoon of all purpose flour
Flavouring: half teaspoon of finely chopped and somewhat shredded lemon, half teaspoon of ground cinnamon, one-fourth grounded ginger
Dough/Crust: half cup all purpose flour, one and one-half cake flour, two-thirds lard, seven tablespoons cold water
Preparation
1. Pick your apples;
2. Peel thy apples and place peeled apples into bucket of cold water;
3. Cut your peeled whole apples into thin slices;
4. Put all fillings ingredients and flavouring ingredients into a single tinware;
5. Mix fillings and flavouring like you are tossing salad;
6. Put it aside.
7. Find a new tin ware;
8. Pour flour into the empty ware;
9. Pour lard into ware with two cups of flour and stir during pour;
10. Add one tablespoon of water at a time as you stir;
11. Use your hands now and hopefully you can form a big dough ball; if not, skip step 12 and goto step 13;
12. Separate dough into two balls;
13. Good luck to you;
14. Get the pie plate or pie pan out and lightly dust it with flour;
15. Throw one ball into the plate and start punching it to flatten it and shape it like the plate (on your best effort); do not pinch;
16. Once the ball turn into a satisfactory dough plate get it out and put it aside;
17. Do the same thing to da other dough ball;
18. Decide which dough plate you would want as your bottom and top;
19. Put bottom to pie plate;
20. Put fillings on top;
21. Put top cover over the bottom with fillings;
22. Seal it up;
23. Cut some tastful and simple pattern in the middle (not too many nor too big) for a little air pocket effect;
24. Bake with baking sheet on top for 25 minutes at 375 (Celsius or Fahrenheit whichever is lower) ;
25. Remove baking sheet and same temp for another 25 mins;
26. OPTIONAL: reheat for 11 mins for every eating.
Viola! Pick your apples, mix your ingredients, punch the dough and bake pie!
