Pie - Palooza

Old-Fashioned Apple Pie Recipe:

Pastry for 2-crust pie
3/4 to 1 cup sugar
2 tblsp. flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. salt
6 - 7 c. sliced peeled apples
2 tblsp. butter

Combine sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Mix lightly through apples (sliced 1/4 inch thick). Heap in pastry lined 9 inch pan. Dot with butter. Adjust top crust and flute edges; cut vents. Brush crust with egg white.
Bake in hot oven (400) degrees 50 - 60 minutes, or until crust is browned and apples are tender.

Variation - Dutch-Style Apple Pie:
Cut large vents in top crust and omit butter. Five minutes before baking time is up, remove pie from oven and pour 1/2 cup heavy cream into pie through vents. Return to oven and complete baking! YUMM

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Grandmas Pumpkin Pie



Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Pie crust recipe (see above)
Mix:
3 eggs
1 c. white sugar
1 c. pumpkin
1 cup cream
1/2 cup milk
1 t. cinnamon
1 t. nutmeg
1/2 t. ginger
3/4 t. salt

450 degrees for 15 min then 350 degrees for 45 min.