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Bake a sweet-smelling apple pie with the recipe below. It is perfect as a Christmas dessert. Enjoy!

Ingredients:
Pie crust
This recipe makes enough dough for a double crust pie (one top crust & one bottom crust).
8 or 9-Inch Double Crust
3 level cups all-purpose flour
1 level teaspoon salt
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup butter or shortening
5 tablespoons cold water
1 tsp sugar (optional)
Directions to make crust:
1. Combine flour, salt in bowl. Create well.
2. In the well, add margarine and butter.
3. Using a fork or pastry cutter, combine butter/margarine with the flour until well blended.
4. With a few tablespoons of water, add to the flour mixture and slowly form a ball. Add more water if desired.
5. Roll the dough from center outwards form a circle. Make sure the diameter is one inches more than the top of the pie plate.
Ingredients:
Apple pie filling
1/4 cup brown sugar , packed
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
2 tbsps butter
8 to 10 green tart apples, sliced
3 pieces calamansi juice
Directions to make the filling:
1. Pare and slice apples thinly.
2. Squeeze calamansi juice on sliced apples.
3. Combine the first 7 ingredients above together to create a sugar-spice mixture. Blend well.
4. Coat apples gently with sugar and spice mixture.
5. Spoon into pie crust. Add butter on top.
6. Cover with crust. Flute the top of the pie crust. Slit in center.
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