This apple pie has been "in the making" for many, many years now.  I've learned this from one person and that from another.  I picked up this little tidbit (about pie making) from this website and read about that little tidbit in a cookbook.  I can tell you that it's almost perfect!  (Nothing is absolute, since tastes are different.)  If you want to try and prove me wrong, take this recipe for a test drive yourself!  I played with the idea of keeping it as "my family's secret recipe", but didn't want to deprive anyone this wonderful experience.

Ingredients:

• 1 double-crust recipe
• 8-10 Jonathan apples, peeled, cored & sliced
• 2 TBS flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ¾ C sugar

 Directions: 

Preheat oven to 400°. 

Place bottom crust in deep pie dish.

Mix together apples, flour, cinnamon &  sugar until well coated.  Spoon into pie crust.

Place little dabs of butter evenly over apple mixture.

Place top crust and crimp edges.  My girls like to make little leaves out of the extra crust.  Add those now if you like.  Wet your finger with cold water and spread thin layer all over top crust.  Sprinkle sugar.

Bake in 400° oven for 15 minutes.  Then, turn down to 350° and bake for another 40 minutes.

I serve this with a scoop of vanilla bean or butter pecan ice cream.  Delicious!

 Here's another take on this great apple pie.  Mini Apple Pies.  Use the same recipe as above.  Just bake them in seperate pie pans.  This recipe will make eight.