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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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