Granny Smith Apple Pie

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Ingredients

Directions

In a bowl, stir together flour and salt.

Add shortening and blend until mixture resembles coarse meal.

Add 4-6 Tbsp ice water or enough to form into soft but not sticky dough, tossing the mixture with a fork.

Form dough into a ball, flatten it slightly, dust with flour and chill it, wrapped in wax paper, for 1 hour.

Divide dough into 2 pieces, one slightly larger than the other.

Chill the larger piece, wrapped in wax paper.

Roll out the other, 1/8-inch thick on a floured surface, and fit it to a 9-inch pie plate, and trim the edge leaving a 1/2-inch overhang.

Chill the pie shell while making the filling.

In a large bowl, stir together 14 Tbsp sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, salt, and zest.

Peel, quarter, and core the apples; slice thinly, crosswise, and add them to the sugar mixture, tossing to coat well.

Mound the apple mixture in the pie shell, sprinkle with lemon juice and dot with butter.

Roll out the larger piece of dough to a 13 or 14-inch round on a floured surface and drape it over the filling.

Trim top crust, leaving a 1-inch overhang.

Fold overhang under bottom crust, pressing the edge to seal it.

Crimp the edge decoratively with a fork.

Make slits in the top crust to form steam vents.

Brush with handamp;amp;h and sprinkle with the remaining sugar.

Bake pie in lower third of a preheated oven for 15 minutes, reduce heat to and bake for 40-45 minutes more, or until filling is bubbling and crust is golden.

Transfer pie to a rack to cool.

In a chilled bowl, beat cream with the honey, cinnamon, and nutmeg until it holds soft peaks.

Transfer to a serving dish.

Serve the pie warm or at room temperature with the Honey Spice Whipped Cream.

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Fudge

I lovew this type of fudge. However, there is also a microwave cooking method using the same ingredients using the same amount. First you melt the butter, then add the sugar and milk, stirring until well mixed. Place in microwave on high or mdeium high (large ovens) and cook for 5 mintues. Take bowl out and stir, replace bowl in oven and cook for another 4 minutes or until misture starts to boil. Remove bowl and stir and scrape sides of bowl. Cook another 5 minutes, remove and stir, cook another 3 minutes and remove from oven. Add chocolate chips, stirring until melted, add vanilla extract, stir, add marshmallow, stir. Add nuts if desired, stir some more, then pour into greased pans. I also found that if you work quickly after melting the chocolate and adding the vanilla, you can poor half the mixture into a pan, add half the nuts required and stir into the mixture and pour this into another prepard pan. That way you'll have both no-nut fudge, and fudge with nuts.