Apple Pie [made easy]
Mix flour & salt in medium bowl. Cut oil into flour with a fork into pea size crumbles. Add water & make into two balls. Wet your hand and run across counter to dampen with water.
Cut 4 pieces of wax paper [to roll dough between]. Put first piece of wax paper on damp counter to keep from sliding. Add one ball of dough on top of wax paper. Now lay 2nd piece of wax paper on top of dough. Roll-out bottom crust, so that it’s 2″ larger than your pie plate. Put into pie pan and roll out your top crust, set the top crust aside.
I like to use the Apple Pie recipe from my Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook. I prepare, the ingredients for, 4 pies at once. Now divide this into 4 gallon zip lock freezer bags. You can bake one, then freeze the rest to make life easier on another day.
Place a “Pie Bird” in the center of your pie place [see picture]. Make sure it’s resting directly on the bottom crust. Now add your pie filling all around it. This will allow the steam to escape and keep your pie from bubbling all over your oven! Add the top crust, crimp edges and bake according to the directions.
My husband and co-Bed and Breakfast owner, Paul, loves pie and pretty much slivers his way right through a great apple pie. He loves a couple bites with coffee in the morning. He will share some of “HIS” pie with friends after dinner for a dessert but he especially LOVES apple pie and vanilla ice cream at 10pm. With all this pie eating….you probably guessed it… he is the same size as when I met him. I can watch “him eat pie” and gain weight- Life is great but NOT always fair!