Grandma's Green Apple Pie

Name: Grandma's Green Apple Pie
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 dozen small, hard, tart green apples; 1 scant teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1½ cups granulated sugar; Pinch of ground cloves; 2 tablespoons butter; Pastry for a one-crust pie (your own or see below); ½ cup all-purpose flour

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Clay-Pot Cookbook

By Georgia Sales

Published 1974

About

This down-home recipe from Georgia's grandmother in Great Falls is more of a cobbler than a pie, but whether sliced or scooped out, it still drips with that old-fashioned flavor. The little green apples should be very hard and tart-the tarter the apple, the better the pie. It should be served with a sharp Cheddar cheese.

Ingredients

1 dozen small, hard, tart green apples

Dessert
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Presoak a clay pot, top and bottom, in water for 10 minutes.

Core and peel the apples, slice them thin, and place in the bottom of the presoaked pot. You should have about 5 cups of sliced apples. Combine the sugar, flour, salt, cinnamon, and cloves and pour over the apples. Stir the contents o