Scottish Recipes: Apple Pie

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Ingredients

Wash enough good cooking apples to fill your pie dish; then peel and core them and cut into thick chunks.

Simmer the peelings and cores in a saucepan with a tumbler of water for half an hour; then strain and cool.

Mix with the sugar a little grated lemon rind, a pinch of ground nutmeg, cinnamon or cloves, and a pinch of salt.

Pile the apples in a round pie dish making them high in the centre, and sprinkling spiced sugar between each layer.

Pour the cold apple liquor over all.

Cover with good short pastry rolled out to quarter inch thick, making a hole in the centre, and decorate with a border of pastry apple leaves, leaving the domed centre plain.

Brush with beaten egg or milk. Put into a hot oven, but when the crust begins to brown, lower the heat to cook the apples.

An hour, in all, should be ample.

Serve with cream or creamy custard.