Use this way only the best ripe cooking applies. Pare and core and slice them thin across the core hole, making rings. Fill paste-lined pie pans about two layers deep. Thinly cover the apple slices with sugar, and grate nutmeg over. Put in each pie, butter about the size of a walnut and a large spoonful of water. Bake without a top crust slowly and dry. The apples become transparent and half candied.

Cost of material - for 2 pies, puff paste 6, apples 2, sugar 3, butter 2; count 2 per plate.