Apple Filling For Pies

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 4 cups diced apples
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1/2 cup sugar, depending on sweetness of apples, to taste
• 2 -4 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, to your taste
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon, to your taste
• 1 cup apple juice or 1 cup water, if you don't have juice, try to have juice, it adds to the flavor

Recipe

• 1 sprinkle lemon juice over apples in saucepan.
• 2 mix next four ingredients together and add to apples.
• 3 mix well.
• 4 add very hot juice to pan, (i microwave juice for 2 minutes) cook, stirring constantly until thickened.
• 5 remove from heat and cool.
• 6 fill a well chilled 9 inch pastry lined pan and cover with top crust.
• 7 bake on lowest rack at 425* for 10 minutes, and finish baking on center rack until bubbling, about 20 minutes more.