1
[".Pastry: Combine flour and salt in large bowl and cut in shortening with pastry blender until mixture is crumbly.", "Sprinkle ice water over mixture a tablespoon at a time and mix lightly with a fork, just until pastry holds together and leaves side of bowl clean.", "Roll out, half at a time, on lightly floured pastry cloth wrapped around a wooden board, with a rolling pin covered with a floured pastry stocking, to a 12"" round.", "Loosen pastry from pastry cloth and wrap around rolling pin.", "Transfer to a 9"" pie plate.", "Fill and bake, following individual recipe.", "PIe: Pare, quarter, and core apples and cut into very thin slices (a food processor does this very quickly).", "Combine sugar, flour, nutmeg, and salt in a small bowl.", "Sprinkle part of the sugar mixture into the bottom of pastry.", "Add sliced apples, sprinkling with sugar mixture and piling into a tower in center of pie plate.", "Cut butter into tiny pieces and sprinkle over apples.", "Squeeze lemon juice over apples.", "Roll out remaining pastry to a 13"" round on lightly floured pastry cloth or board and cut a 4 inch cross in the center of pastry.", "Transfer pastry to top of apples, using rolling pin.", "Open cross in center of pastry to make a hole.", "Trim overhang to 1 inch; turn under and flute.", "Roll out tiny pieces of pastry trims into ropes and shape into the letter A on side of pie.", "Cut slits around top pastry for steam to escape.", "Brush pastry with cream or milk and sprinkle with coarse or granulated sugar.", "Place pie plate on a large cookie sheet.", "Bake in 375 degree oven, covering pastry with aluminum foil if it darkens too quickly, 1 hour or until juice bubbles up.", "Cool in pie plate on wire wrack.", "Serve warm with vanilla ice cream."]
