Tuesday 28 June 2011 This week's recipe for July the Fourth
Why not celebrate Independence Day with President Eisenhower's favourite apple pie, taken from Eating with Uncle Sam: Recipes and Historical Bites from the National Archives. Filled with 150 historical and modern-day recipes, and heavily illustrated with documents and photographs from the National Archives, this fascinating new book accompanies the National Archives exhibition "What's Cooking Uncle Sam" which runs until January 2012.
DEEP DISH APPLE PIE
6 tart apples
Grated rind of 1 lemon
½ cup sugar
Grated rind of 1 orange
½ cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ pastry recipe (below)
Pare and core apples; cut into eights. Place in deep, greased baking dish. Combine sugar, brown sugar, nutmeg, lemon rind, and orange rind. Sprinkle over apples. Dot with butter or margarine. Top with thin sheet of pastry, pricked in a design. Bake in hot oven (425°F).
Pastry
2 cups flour
¾ teaspoon salt
2/ 3 cup shortening
Cold water
Sift flour; measure. Mix and sift flour and salt. Cut in shortening with 2 knives or pastry blender until flour shortening particles are about the size of small peas. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon cold water over mixture and mix in lightly with a fork. Continue adding water in this fashion until pastry gathers around fork in a soft ball. Divide pastry in half and roll each half separately on lightly floured board to 1/8-inch thickness. Handle rolling pin very lightly. Makes enough for two-crust 9-inch pie. Make half this recipe for deep dish or one-crust pies.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
Please note this recipe hasn't been changed from the original or tested by the editor.
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