Jeanine's Apple Pie

6-8 apples
3/4 cup sugar
2 T flour
1/2 t cinnamon
dash salt
dash nutmeg
1 t lemon juice
2 T butter

Single Crust

1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 t salt
1/2 cup shortening
7 T cold water

Bake at 450 degrees for about 13 min.


Double Crust

2 cups flour
1 t salt
2/3 cup shortening
7-10 T cold water

Bake at 450 for 10 minutes and 350 for 60 minutes

Sour Cream Lemon Pie

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup white sugar 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups milk 1/2 cup sour cream

3 egg yolks 1/4 cup butter 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon zest 1/4 cup lemon juice 1 (9 inch) pie crust, baked

DIRECTIONS:

1.	In a saucepan, combine sugar, flour, and salt. Gradually stir in milk. Cook and stir on medium heat until thickened and bubbly. Reduce heat, and cook and stir 2 more minutes. Remove from heat.
2.	Beat yolks slightly. Gradually stir 1 cup of mix into yolks. Return yolk mixture to saucepan, and bring to gentle boil. Cook and stir 2 more minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in butter, peel, and juice. Fold in sour cream.
3.	Pour filling into baked pie shell, and cool. Top with whipped cream if desired.

Homemade Laundry Soap

The entire bar of Zote, 2 cups of each of the others. I cut the bar soap into small pieces and then mix these in a big bowl. I then put about 2 cups of this mixture at a time in my Blendtec for about 10 seconds. This will fluff it up and make it so that it will dissolve easily in my front loader. Use between 1/4 to 1/2 cup per load. 

I buy a package of Zote. (Yes, the Mexican bar soap. And I use white to get rid of the coloring. I have used the pink one when I could not find the white one though.). Borax, Washing Soda, and Epsom Salts. That is all. 

Some people put essential oils in this mixture. I do not. I have found that I prefer to use a nice old wash cloth with a few drops of lemon and lavender in my dryer for my dryer sheets. If I do not dry the clothes too long, I do not get very much static.