Our Family Secret: The Perfect Apple Crisp

It is Fall.  Which means it is Fall food time.  :-)  We grew up on an apple crisp that will make you swoon.  Once we all became of the age to begin cooking, apple crisp was one of the first recipes we all requested of our mom.  I had no idea how easy it would be!

What You Need
5 cups tart apples (I use green): peel, core and slice them up
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon of cinnamon, mixed with 1 teaspoon of sugar
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
Vanilla ice cream

What To Do
Preheat the oven to 375 and butter a loaf pan.

In large bowl, toss the apple slices with the lemon juice and cinnamon-sugar mixture.

In another bowl, blend the brown sugar, flour, butter and salt together.  Mix it up with pastry blender, 2 knives and then get your hands in there.

Put apple slices in loaf pan.  Press the topping over them.  Bake the apple crisp for 1 hour.  Don't leave the house because it smells too good!

Serve warm with ice cream.  Serve as a leftover cold (if the crisp makes it that far)!