Maple Apple Pie

Ingredients:
Prepared double crust for 9" pie
5 cups apples, peeled and sliced
3/4 cup Pure Maple Syrup
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt
Granulated sugar (or maple sugar)

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Place apples in pie shell.
3. Mix remaining ingredients in a bowl, and pour over apples.
4. Place top crust over filling, cut steam vents, and sprinkle with sugar.
5. Bake for 15 minutes, reduce heat to 350 degrees and continue baking 30 - 40 minutes.

Pie Crust :

1/2 cup butter, cut into pieces and chilled
1/2 cup shortening
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1/2 cup (approximately) ice cold water
 
1. Mix dry ingredients together in large bowl.
2. Add butter and shortening and cut into dry ingredients with a pastry cutter until crumbly -- with pea-sized pieces of butter and shortening remaining.
3. Gradually, 1 tablespoon at a time, stir in ice cold water -- just until it forms to a dough.
4. Separate into two disks and refrigerate for at least one hour.
5. When ready to assemble pie, remove pie crust disks from the fridge and roll on a lightly floured surface into circles to fit pie plate.