Apple Pie Made Easy Recipe

Directions:

1. Make the pie crust from your favorite pastry recipe. Fit it in a 9 to 10 inch deep dish pie pan. Chill it in the fridge.
2. Combine sugar through allspice.
3. Apples - fresh, sweet varieties: Red Delicious, Gala, Fuji, Jonagold, Jonathon. If you can't get any of these, then try McIntosh, Wineman, Honeycrisp, etc. Peel, core and slice the apples. Make the slices less than 1 inch thick. I have one of those corer slicers that make the apple into 8 slices but the slices are 1 inch thick so I have to slice each slice again. But it is still faster than doing the entire apple by hand.
4. Place the apple slices in a bowl of salted water and vinegar or lemon juice while slicing the apples to keep them from browning.
5. Preheat the oven to 425*F.
6. Drain the apple slices well. Layer the spices and apples in the pie shell starting with the spices:
7. Sprinkle 1/4 cup spice mix on the pastry.
8. Arrange apples in tight formation on the spice mix.
9. Sprinkle 1/4 cup spice mix on the arranged apples.
10. Continue the layering, ending with apple, until the filling is 1.5 to 2 inches above the top of the pie crust. Then sprinkle lightly with the spice mix. The apples will cook down.
11. Bake in the lower 1/3 of oven for 10 minutes. Turn the heat down to 375*F and bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes.
12. When the apples are soft (stick a blunt knife in the middle to test), and the top is golden brown, remove the pie to cool!