Apple Pie Filling

Yield:  2-9inch pies. 

Ingredients: 
Apples                          2 lbs. 8 oz.
Water                           1 lb.   4 oz.
Granulated Sugar                    6 oz.
Salt                                       pinch
Cinnamon                            .25 oz.
Cornstarch                              2 oz.

Method of Preparation: 

1) Gather equipment and scale ingredients.

2) Combine the apples with 2/3 of the water, all of the sugar, salt and cinnamon.

3) place in a heavy bottom pot and bring to a boil.

4) Make a slurry by whisking the rest of the water with the cornstarch.

5) When the apple mixture comes to  boil temper in the slurry, stirring constantly.

6) Bring to a second boil so it becomes thick.

7) Remove from heat and pour onto a plastic lined sheet pan. Put a piece of plastic wrap over the mixture. Let cool.

8) While the filling is cooling roll out pie dough and put into pie tin.scissor* the edges with a bench scraper. 

9) Cover the top by weaving pieces of dough together to make a lattice.

* To scissor the edge of the dough take your bench scraper and cut up and douwn against the pie tin to get trid of anyscrap dough.