Frosted Big Apple Pie Recipe

  Pies

Ingredients:
Egg Yolk Pastry*
4 tsp. lemon juice
5 lbs. peeled, thinly sliced, tart apples(about 12-15 c.)
3/4 c. sugar
3/4 c. brown sugar, firmly packed
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
Confectioners sugar icing
* Egg yolk Pastry
5 c. sifted flour
4 tsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 c. lard
2 egg yolks
cold water

Directions:
Roll out half the pastry into rectangle and use to line 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1 -inch jelly-roll pan. Sprinkle lemon juice on apples. Place half the apples in bottom of pastry-lined pan.

Combine remaining ingredients, except apples and frosting. Sprinkle half the mixture over apples in pan. Spread remaining apples slices on top and sprinkle with remnaining sugar-spice mixture.

Top with remaining pastry, rolled out; seal and crimp edges. Brush with milk and sprinkle with a little sugar. Cut vents or prick with fork as for all 2-crust fruit pies.

Bake in hot oven(400 degrees F.) 50 minutes. When cool, drizzle with confectioner's sugar mixed with milk to make a thin icing. Cut in squares to serve.
Makes 24 servings.

Frosted Big Apple Pie
 

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