• Preheat oven to 450°.
• Stir apples, sugar, pie spice, cornstarch or flour and cream together in a bowl.
• Mound apples in pie shell.
• In another bowl, stir flour and brown sugar together.
• Cut in butter with a pastry blender or fork to make crumbs.
• Top pie with crumbs.
• Bake at 450 for 15 minutes.
• Reduce heat to 350 and bake about 20 more minutes or until apples are tender.

For the homemade pie crust:

• I always use butter in my crusts, and I soften it a bit. Notice that you’ll use a bit less than ½ cup.
• I use about ½ Tbs. less.
• The basic directions are to cut the butter into the flour and salt.
• Add the water and stir with a fork until it forms a ball.
• Roll it out and put it in the pie pan.