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     Title: De Luxe Apple Pie
Categories: Pies, Desserts
     Yield: 1 pie

          Pastry for 2-crust pie
     1 c  C and H Granulated Sugar
     2 tb Flour
   1/8 ts Salt
   1/2 ts Cinnamon
     4 c  Diced tart apples
          -- (5 or 6 apples = 4 cups)
     4    Canned pear halves
     2 tb Rum
     2 tb Butter or margarine

 Line 9" pie pan with pastry; refrigerate until used.  Mix sugar,
 flour, salt and cinnamon; add to apples and mix thoroughly.  Set
 aside.  Crush pears and spread in bottom of pastry-lined pan;
 sprinkle with rum.  Heap apple mixture over pears; dot with butter.
 Put on top crust; seal and crimp edges; cut slits for steam to
 escape.  Bake at 400 F for 45 minutes or until apples are tender.
 Serve warm.

 Reprinted with permission from _Pies On Parade_
 (Jean Porter, C and H Sugar Kitchen)
 Typed for you by Karen Mintzias

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