Mommy's Apple Pie

Ingredients

• 12 whole apples, peeled and sliced, red delicious apples recommended
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground allspice
• 3/4 tsp ground cloves
• 2 whole pie crusts (top and bottom), homemade or store-bought, rolled out

Steps

1. Peel apples and cook well; you can add sugar to the apples while cooking.

2. Mash the apples after they cook — a potato masher works well.

3. Add all the spices and stir or mix well. Taste and add more spices if needed.

4. Make your pie crust, dividing the dough to keep some for the top crust. Put crust in the bottom of a greased pie plate.

5. Pour the apple mixture into the pie plate (this will make two pies).

6. Place the top crust over the fruit and use a fork to mash the edges of the top crust.

7. Preheat oven to 425°F and bake for 15 minutes.

   15 min

8. Reduce temperature to 350°F and bake an additional 45 minutes.

   45 min