Aunt Doris' Apple Pie

In our family, Aunt Doris is the pie expert! Family gatherings are not complete without one of her apple pies. And now I can share it with all of you. Hope this recipe becomes part of your family memories.

Preheat oven 425 degrees

Pie crust:
2 cups flour
1/2  tsp salt
1/2 cup canola oil (or vegetable oil of your choice)
4 T. cold milk

Mix together above ingredients and form a ball. If too moist, add a little more flour. Cut in 1/2 and roll each half between 2 pieces of waxed paper. Use 8" or 9" pie dish.

Filling:
6 apples (McIntosh, granny smith, empire)
2 tsp. lemon juice
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 T. flour
2 T. margarine

Pare, peel and slice apples. Sprinkle apples with lemon juice. Mix 1 cup sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg with apples. Spray bottom of pie tin lightly with oil. Place bottom pie crust in pie pan and sprinkle 1 T. flour on pie crust. Put apples in and dot with 2 T. margarine. Put top crust on and prick top of pie crust with fork.

Bake 40 - 50 minutes.

Apple Pancakes

1 1/2 cups flour
3 T. sugar
3 eggs
1 cup milk
4 T. melted butter
1 T. vanilla extract
1 large apple, peeled, cored, thinly sliced

Mix all dry ingredients in one bowl and all wet ingredients in another bowl. Add dry to wet, blend well. Fold in apple slices. Cook as you would any other pancake.

Apple Crumble

A newspaper clipping found in an old cookbook. I couldn't find a date on the clipping, however, mention of rations leads me to believe this is during World War II.

"Here is a dessert in which part of the sweetening is done with honey. Desserts such as this will make your sugar ration go farther.
Peel and core apples, slice and measure four cups. Place these slices in the bottom of a well greased shallow baking dish. Sprinkle one-fourth cup of sugar over the slices, then add two teaspoons of lemon juice and one-half cup of honey.
Combine one-half cup of flour, three tablespoons of brown sugar, a dash of salt and three tablespoons of butter. Work this mixture until it is crumbly.
Sprinkle over the top of the apples and bake in a 375 degree oven for about 30 minutes, or until the apples are tender and the crumbs are lightly browned. Serve warm with thick cream."