Apple Pie

Ingredients

• half cup white flour
• pinch salt
• half cup whole wheat
• two tablespoons butter
• four tart, quick-cooking apples
• teaspoon butter
• tablespoon water
• Sugar to suit taste
• Flavor with cinnamon if one likes.

Method

1. 1

   Sift flours and salt, rub in butter until flaky.

2. 2

   Add ice water to form a ball.

3. 3

   Roll out and cover pie tins.

4. 4

   Pare and quarter apples, lay in pie crust, sprinkle with sugar and butter mixed with water.

5. 5

   Bake until apples are soft, adding butter halfway through.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 103. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

APPLE PIE. (For children and invalids.) Mary Stone Welcn, San Diego, Cal.— For crust take half cup white flour, pinch salt, half cup whole wheat; sift; two tablespoons butter, Put in mixing bowl; rub together with spoon until flaky, or lightly with cool fingsr tips. Tablespoon cracked ice or ice water; mix with spoon into ball. Flour cool bread board, roll rather thin; cover two pie tins, flute edge half inch; set on ice or in 62 COOKING- AND OTHER RECIPES. cool place, longer the better. Pare four tart, quick-cooking apples; quarter; cut each four times; lay close, but not deep; bake in quick oven; when half done sprinkle each with tea- spoon butter in tablespoon water. Sugar to suit taste, the less, the better apple flavor. Flavor with cinnamon if one likes.

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