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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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