Recipe - Apple Pie With Port With Cheddar Cheese Crust

FILLING
1 One half cup Sugar
One fourth cup Cornstarch
2/3 cup Apple juice
2/3 cup Port
2 tablespoon Butter or margarine
1 Lemon (Grated peel only)
8 md Cooking apples; peeled
and cut or sliced up

CHEDDAR CHEESE CRUST
2 cup Sifted flour
1 teaspoon Salt
2/3 cup Shortening
Three fourths cup Shredded sharp cheddar
5 tablespoon Cold water (or more)

Combine sugar and cornstarch in large saucepan. Stir in apple juice, port,
butter and lemon peel. Cook over medium heat until mixture boils. Add
apples and cook gently until barely tender.

To make Cheddar Cheese crust, mix flour, salt and shortening with pastry
blender until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in cheese. Add water
gradually and mix lightly with fork to form dough. Divide pastry in halves
and roll out one half to fit 9inch pie pan. Roll second half of pastry and
cut into 10 (1/2inch) strips. Spoon filling into pastrylined pan. Weave
pastry strips across filling to make lattice top. Bake at 375F 30 to 45
minutes, or until done. Serve warm.

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