Apple Pie Recipe

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!