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Fresh Apple Pie

3/4 cup sugar
1 Tablespoon cornstarch
1 tsp ground cinnamon
6 cups sliced cored and peeled apples
1 Tablespoon lemon juice

Pastry for 9 inch double crust Pie
1 Tablespoon butter

Mix first 3 ingredients. Toss with apples and lemon juice. Place in pastry lined piepan. Dot with margarine. Cover with top crust. Seal and flute edges. Cut slits in top. Bake at 425 50 min until browned.

Country Apple Pie

1 Tblsp plus 1/2 tsp. sugar
1 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
6 cups apple slices
1 cup light brown sugar
2 Tblsp. flour
2 Tblsp. butter
1/4 to 1/2 cup cheddar cheese
1 unbaked 9 inch pastry shell

In a bowl mix apples, brown sugar, flour and 1 tsp nutmeg.
Sprinkle bottom of pastry with 1 Tblsp sugar and the 1/4 tsp nutmeg
Roll the second part of the pastry into a round and sprinkle with cheese. Fold in thirds and roll again to fit pie. Press edges of pastry together. Sprinkle remaining sugar on top. Bake at 425 for 40 min.
Recipe from 1953 Cookbook

How to Make Homemade Apple Pie

4 cups sliced apples
1 cup sugar
1 Tablespoon butter
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp lemon juice

Fill your piecrust shell with thinly sliced apples, and sprinkle with sugar, spices and lemon juice. Dot with butter. Moisten edge of crust with water. Roll remaining dough for top crust and cut a few slits to permit steam to escape. Fit top crust over apples and seal edges. Bake 45 to 50 minutes at 425. Also see Apple Pizza
Recipe from a 1941 Cookbook

Crustless Apple Pie

1 c. sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 c. flour
1/2 c. butter
1 qt. apples

Grease a pie tin. put apples in and top with mixture of sugar, cinnamon, flour and butter. put in oven at 350 for 25 minutes or until apples are tender.
Recipe from a 1982 Spencer, Iowa "Ladies in Pink" recipebook

Recipe for Candy Apples!

How to Make Candy Apples for Halloween

10 medium apples
10 wooden skewers
2 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1 teaspoon red food coloring

Wash and dry apples, insert skewers in the stem end. Combine sugar water, vanilla, corn syrup and food coloring, and cook in a large deep pan. During cooking the crystals which form on the pan, should not be stirred into the candy. Continue cooking without stirring to hard crack stage, 280. Remove from heat, hold apples by skewers and dip into syrup. Place buttered platter to cool.
Recipe from an 1963 Better Homes Cookbook

- Here's a recipe for Cinnamon Candy Apples.
- Also see this Caramel Apples Recipes

Baked Apples

On a large cookie sheet, place cored apples. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Bake upright for one hour at 325. Serve warm.
Recipe from a 1953 Cookbook

Make Apple Bread!

Apple Bread

2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 Tblsp sour milk
1 cup fresh apple peeled and chopped
Nuts if desired

Mix first 4 ingredients. Cream sugar and butter, add eggs and sour milk. Beat and add dry ingredients to it a 1/2 cup at a time. Add apples and nuts. Bake at 325 for 45 minutes. The recipe calls for an 8x8x2 in pan but I found for this size pan it had to be cooked a little longer. Just check it occasionally. The dough should be of a consistancy of biscuit dough. You can use sweet milk, only use a teaspoon of vinegar as part of the 1 1/2 Tblsp of tart milk.
Recipe from 1963 Church Cookbook from Indiana

- Here's another recipe for Coffee Apple Bread.

Make some Apple Brownies!

Apple Brownies

1 stick of butter
1 c. sugar
1 beaten egg
2 med. chopped apples
1/2 c. chopped nuts (optional)
1 c. flour
1/2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. cinnamon

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, apples and nuts. Sift together flour, soda, baking powder and cinnamon; add to mixture. Pour into a greased brownie size pan, 8x8 inches or 7x11 inches and bake at 350 for 40 minutes. Cool in pan and cut into squares.
Recipe from a 1982 "Ladies in Pink" recipebook from Iowa

Here's a recipe for Apple Dip!

Apple Dip

1 8oz pkg. cream cheese
3/4 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. honey (or white corn syrup)
1 tsp. vanilla
Chopped walnuts (or pecans)

Mix well. Keeps 2 weeks in refrigerator. Delicious with or without nuts

Also see this page for other Fruit Dip Recipes.