Grandma’s Amazing Apple Pie

Few things are as classically American as apple pie, and so is how I learned to make it.  While spending the afternoon with my great-grandmother on the family dairy farm one afternoon, she decided to make a pie – only she stood beside me and coached me through the process.  Together we made an apple pie, crimping the edges together and drawing her special pattern in the top crust, and that is now one of my most special memories of her.  

 

Grandma was an amazing baker, and everyone loved when she “twisted your arm” and made you stay for lunch, especially if she had cookies or a pie waiting beside the fridge.  Her apple pie was no exception.