Friday, January 18, 2008

Mom's Apple Pie



Crust Ingredients:
2/3 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup milk
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons sugar
1 1/4 teaspoon salt

Filling Ingredients:
5-7 tart apples; peeled and sliced thin
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Dash of salt
4 tablespoons of butter


Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a large cooking pot, combine all the filling ingredients and cook until very soft.

In the pie baking dish, mix flour, sugar, and salt.

In small bowl, whip oil and milk together and pour over the flour mixture.

Mix together with fork until the four is all damp and ingredients are combined completely. Reserve 1/3 of dough to crumble over the filling for crust top.

Press rest of dough to the bottom of the pie baking dish evenly and up the sides; crimp edges.

Add filling and top with the reserved flour; crumpled. Dot with butter

Bake for 30-40 minutes; until top is brown and filling is bubbling.