My mother’s Apple Pie Recipe by Tara O’R  - 25.10.2001

Ingredients:
4oz of Short Pastry
1 lb. of Apples
Sugar to sweeten
White of Egg
A little Castor Sugar

Method of cooking:

1. Roll out pastry a little bigger than pastry dish. Leave in a cold place while pre preparing the filling.

2. Peel core and slice apples. Put into pie dish, Sprinkle with cloves and sugar in-between. Add a little water.

3. Cut a stripe of pastry about 1\2 inch wide. Damp around the edge of the pie dish. Place the strip on edge of pie dish with the cut edge to the outside.

4. Brush stripe with cold water. Place the remainder of the pastry on the pie dish, easing it over the pie dish.

5. Press edges well together. Trim with sharp Knife, Flake and decorate the edges.

6. Stand pie dish on a tin, and bake in a hot oven for the first 8-10 minuets.
        Reducing the heat until pie is cooked about a 1\2 an hour.

7. Brush the top over with egg. Dredge with castor sugar. Return in to oven until nicely brown.

8. Dust with castor sugar and serve.