Perfect Apple Pie (1st Prize County Fair)
5 to 7 tart apples (green)
3/4 to 1 cup sugar
2 tbsp. enriched flour
1/8 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
2 tbsp. butter
1 recipe plain pastry
Mix sugar, flour, salt and spices, sprinkle half over 9 inch pastry lined pie pan. Heap apples into pastry shell. Sprinkle with remaining sugar mixture. Dot with butter. Adjust top crust. Brush with top milk; sprinkle with sugar. Bake in hot oven (450 F.) 10 minutes then in moderate oven (350 F.) about 40 minutes.
