Apple Pie

What to do with a peck of apples? It became clear pretty quickly we couldn't possible eat them all as snacks and that we'd better get baking. I dusted off an old recipe from Shelburne Farms, VT.

Kate unloading the apples. All of the pics are grainy! I really hate my camera (Canon Powershot). It takes OK outside pics, but terrible inside pics unless I use the flash (which looks terrible; see below). I have tried it all. I think I will go for a Casio Exlim next time; I had great luck with that in England. Any suggestions from my photo friends would be appreciated!My best helper
Some animals helped
I love this recipe because it only uses a bit of brown sugar (no white) and a ton of maple syrup (which I have a surplus of thanks to our sugar house trip this spring).


Discovered the hard way that nutmeg isn't as nice to taste as cinnamon...
It's on


It was Kate's idea to break out the play dough cutters for the trimmed dough and decorate the tops of the pies.
Masterpieces
They tasted good, too!
We waited til after bath and for papa to come home before we sampled it. What a wonderful day (and I mean day. Have you ever baked 2 pies with a toddler? I think it was 3.5 hours...then clean up...)