Apple Pie

CHRISTMAS APPLE PIE (2011)    (PASTRY RECIPE FOLLOWING)

5-6 cups  thinly sliced apples        
½ cup lemon juice
½ cup white sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
¼ cup melted butter
3 tblsp flour
Sprinkle of cinnamon

1.      Combine everything ( except pastry), pile into shell.Taste apples. They are wonderful with sugar and brown sugar and cinnamon sprinkled.  Note to self: make apples like this for snack. Yum.

2.      Dot with margarine.

3.      Cover with pastry and turn edges up.

4.      Wash with milk, or water , sprinkle with coarse sugar.

5.      Bake  at 375 degrees for about an hour. Test with knife to see if apples are done.

Serve with good French vanilla ice cream, sit by the Christmas tree, and enjoy

VANCOUVER ISLAND PASTRY: (Never fails. Good frozen in flat discs for later on)

6 cups flour
2 tsp salt
1 lb chilled shortening
1 egg
1 tbsp vinegar
1 cup ice water

Combine flour, salt and cut up chilled lard into this mix.
Cut in with pastry cutter, till the mix resembles peas.
Mix the liquids together with the egg. Make a well in centre of dry ingredients, and dump in the liquids.

 Stir together , quickly, with a fork will a soft , and combine into a soft ball.

Divide this ball into 6 segments, flatten each one and wrap in plastic wrap. So easy. So convenient.

(These can now spend their short lives in the fridge, for 3 days, or freeze for up to 1 month.)