Apple Pie - From Hunter's Johnny Appleseed Day Pie at School

CRUST
2 cups flour
1 cup cold butter, cut into small pieces
1/2 cup ice water
1 tsp salt
1 egg yolk

Stir flour and salt together in a bowl.
Add pieces of cold butter into flour mixture.
Mix together with your fingers (or pastry cutter) until pieces are the size of peas.
Add ice water, a few tablespoons at a time, adding more as needed to moisten all the dough.
stir with a fork until mixture forms a loose ball.
Divide dough in half to make 2 equal flat patties.
Place 1 disc between two sheets of wax or parchment paper, an roll out into a 12" circle.
Peel off top paper and place, dough side down, into pie pan.  Remove other piece of paper.
Trim around the edge.
Roll out other patty in the same way.
Refrigerate both until ready to use.

FILLING
5 - 7 apples, peeled, cored, and cut into 1/2-inch slices.
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
2 TBS butter
1 tsp cinnamon

Preheat oven to 425.
In a large bowl, combine sugar, cinnamon, and salt.
Toss apples in sugar mixture until well coated.
Arrange apple slices in pie pan, piling them high in the center.
Dot with butter.
Moisten the edge of the bottom crust with water.
Cover pie with the top crust and trim the edges.
Pinch top and bottom crusts together.
Mix egg yolk with 1 TBS water and brush mixture over the top crust.
Bake 45 minutes until apples are tender and crust is golden brown.

NOTE: Johnny Appleseed Day is September 26th. 
John Chapman "Johnny Appleseed" was born Sept. 26th, 1774 - Died March 18th, 1845.