Recipe: Favorite Apple Pie

From Southern Farmer's Cookbook, circa 1943-ish

Favorite Apple Pie

6 cups sliced tart apples
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
3 tbsp flour or tapioca
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/4 cup butter
pastry for 9-inch pie crust

Combine dry ingredients and pour over apple slices in large bowl. Add lemon juice. Toss mixture together until slices are well coated. Turn apple mixture into pastry-lined pie pan, heaping in center. Dot with butter. If using a top crust, cut gashes for steam to escape and seal top of pastry together around edges.

Bake at 450 for 10 minutes (to set crust).
Then, reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F. and bake 40-50 minutes longer.

For crust: use Flaky Pastry recipe, or one of the refrigerated types that you can roll out, I think it's Pillsbury brand that works best.

Recipes updates: if you want your apples to "settle down" faster, you can pre-cook them for a few minutes with a sliced up pear. Then, add in the sugar and spices and continue as indicated above. You can almost expect this pie to drip out of the edges, good luck getting it not to, it's very rich and full, but so tasty and worth it!