FRENCH APPLE PIE

This apple pie recipe I am sharing with you today was made by Friend Sharon. Finding the recipe in Quick and Delicious Gourmet Cookbook by Ideals, she has been making it for years. In the cookbook, she wrote "Very, Very GOOD" and it was.

FRENCH APPLE PIE

Bottom Crust

Crumble and pat in bottom and sides of a 9 - or 10 - inch pie plate:

1 - 1/2    cups flour

6            tablespoons butter

1/4         teaspoon salt

Combine and put in lined pie plate:

5           cups chopped pared apples

1            tablespoon lemon juice

3           tablespoons flour

3/4       cup sugar

1            teaspoon  cinnamon

1/4        teaspoon salt

Top Crust:

1/2         cup butter

1/2         cup brown sugar

1/8         teaspoon salt

1             cup flour

Cream butter, sugar, and salt until fluffy.  Cut in flour until lumps form, then sprinkle over top of pie.

Bake at 375 degrees for 55 minutes.

Cool before serving.