Baked Apple Pie With Lemon Nutmeg Sauce

Ingredients

• 4 cups flour
• 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• ½ cup butter
• milk, as needed
• apples, peeled, cored, and quartered
• sugar for sweetening apples
• spice for sprinkling apples
• syrup
• cornstarch
• lemon juice
• grated lemon peel
• butter
• grated nutmeg or other spice

Method

1. 1 Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar.
2. 2 Work in butter and add enough milk to form a dough.
3. 3 Roll out half the dough and line a deep buttered baking dish.
4. 4 Fill with sweetened, spiced peeled, cored, and quartered apples.
5. 5 Cover with remaining dough rolled into a crust.
6. 6 Bake in a moderate oven (350°F) for 2.5 hours.
7. 7 Prepare sauce by thickening syrup with cornstarch and seasoning with lemon juice, peel, butter, and nutmeg.