Twitchy's Famous Apple Pie ~ USA

[Twitchin Kitten]

It doesn't get any more American than this folks! This is my own home made recipe.
Unfortunately, I don't really measure anything for this and I hope you can follow my directions.

This pie comes out JUICY so it's best to let it sit a couple hours if you want it to hold it's shape on your plate.

Alternately, you can add about 3 tablespoons flour to the sugar mixture to tighten up the juiciness. Adjust to your satisfaction!.

You'll need one 10 inch pie plate to bake in - I prefer glass

Two pie crusts to fit this. One for the top and one for the bottom.
I cheat, I buy box crust and make it that way. I just never had any good luck making pie crust from scratch for some reason.
But I am good at making fancy decorations out of the crusts like fluted edges or basket-weaving the top! go figure.

Twitchy's Famous Apple Pie

Ingredients:
6 - 9 tart apples (I like Granny Smiths')
nutmeg
cinnamon
1 cup sugar
butter

Preheat oven to 425°F

Peel and cut your apples. Put each apple in ice cold water until you're done peeling THEN cut them.
Even though you are going to bake them you don't want them to turn brown before hand.

in a bowl, mix cinnamon, sugar and nutmeg until the sugar looks "dirty". Use half as much nutmeg as cinnamon.

Put your apples in the pie crust in layers. Like so:
sugar mix
apples
sugar mix
apples

all the way to the top and let it pile into a small mound.

Take your top crust and make some slits - very small ones in a decorative design in the middle.
Place some pats of butter all over the top of the apples then place your crust on top.

Pinch the top and bottom crusts together to seal it up. I like to get fancy with my edges and make it into a fancy fluted ribbon or braid.

Now you can bake it like it is for a plain crust or you can brush it with milk and sprinkle coarse sugar on the top of the crust (I like it with the sugar and milk).

Put it in the hot oven for 15 minutes at 425°
Then reduce the temp to 350°F and bake for another 50 minutes to an hour (depending on the size of your pie)

Put your pie on a drip pan or you're going to have a sticky smelly mess in your oven!

Take the pie out and let cool.

Variation:
Add nuts and or raisins
craisins