Apple Pie Filling

Wash, peel and core at least 8 apples.  My favorite are Macintosh.   Slice into a large sauce pan and add a TBSP of butter, 3 TBSP flour, 1 tsp cinnamon and a cup or less of sugar or brown sugar or any blend, thereof.   I like to cook down the apples just a little because I like my apples more done.   Don't over do it or you will have apple sauce.  I still like it better than uncooked apples in an apple pie.  Do whatever is your preference.  Bake for 45 min. to an hour at 350 degrees.

Grandpa Woods' French Apple Pie

Add a few raisins to the apple mixture (+ or - 1/4 cup).  After pie is baked and cooled, frost crust with a little butter cream frosting or vanilla frosting or this mixture:  1 cup confectioner's sugar, 1 TBSP butter, 1 tsp pure vanilla flavoring and a drop of milk until the consistency you like for frosting.  It's OK if the pie's a little warm and melts the frosting.  Then, it's a nice glaze instead.