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Plain Apple Pie

3 cups Five Roses flour 1 cup lard (or lard and butter mixed) 1 teaspoon cream of tartar ½ teaspoon soda Pinch of salt Sliced apples ½ cup sugar 1 nutmeg (grated) Cinnamon to taste Sift the flour, soda, cream of tartar and soda together. Rub the shortening in the flour, and use enough water to make it all stick together. Knead very little, roll thin, spread on plate. Fill plate nearly full with apples sliced very thin and placed in smoothly. Spread half a cup of sugar over the apples, about a quarter of a nutmeg grated and cinnamon to taste.

Dampen the edge all around about half an inch wide. Roll out top paste and lay it on. around the edges with a pie-jigger or fork to press the pastes together and keep the juice from boiling over.

Bake in quick oven about 20 minutes, or until the apples are done.

Slit the top.