Kentucky Home Kitchens: Apple Pie

Kentucky Apple Pie (As seen in The Coulter Plough)

by Darlene Crume

Bloomfield, KY

Ingredients

Refrigerated roll pie crust (for bottom and top layer)

6 small fresh apples (Darlene used Washington Red Delicious)

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup flour

1/2 stick of butter (regular margarine)

2 tspn. ground cinnamon

1 tspn. allspice

1 tspn. ground nutmeg

Preheat oven to 350˚. Peel and slice apples. Make and add bottom layer

crust to medium sized baking pan. In a bowl, mix apples with sugar, flour

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1 teaspoon allspice, and ground nutmeg.

Pour mixture onto bottom layer of pie crust. Top with 1/2 stick butter

cut into pieces. Cover with top layer of pie crust. Cut a little extra butter

and place on top of crust along with some additional sprinkles of sugar

and cinnamon.

Bake for 1 hour.

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