Ultimate Apple Pie

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups butter flavored shortening
1 tsp salt
4 Tbsp cold water
1 egg
1 tsp vinegar
8-10 large Prevedelli apples--half Jona-gold & half Mutsu apples combined peeled and sliced
3/4 cups white sugar 
1/3 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp cinnamon
3/4 cups brown sugar

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

To make crust, mix flour, shortening, and salt together. Mix water, egg, and vinegar together; add to dry ingredients. Gather into a ball, wrap in plastic and chill for one hour.

Mix together sugar, cinnamon and 1/3-cup flour. Combine apples with sugar mixture in bowl, (a bowl that fits over pie crust pan). Make sure that apples fill the bowl to allow for heaping pie. Roll out half of dough and place in piecrust pan. Take crust/pie pan and place upside down over bowl making sure that crust mixture is next to apple mixture. Taking bowl of apples with crust turn right side over. Take upside down bowl off leaving a mound of apples in the piecrust pan. Sprinkle additional sugar mixture over top. Roll out remaining dough for top mixture and place over mound of apples. Brush with milk and sprinkle with white sugar over top. Crimp edges Bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes then turn down to 350 degrees and bake additional 60-70 minutes.

By Samuel Lathrop
Prevedelli Farms