Apple Pie With Cheddar Cheese Crust

Ingredients

300 gr sugar
32 gr cornstarch
160 ml apple juice
160 ml port wine
28 gr butter
1 lemon peel
8 slices cooking apples
250 gr flour
3 gr salt
130 gr shortening
85 gr sharp cheddar cheese
80 ml water

Instructions

For the filling, combine sugar and cornstarch in lg saucepan. Stir in apple juice, port, butter and lemon peel. Cook over medium heat until mixture boils. Add apples and cook gently until barely tender. To make Cheddar Cheese crust, mix flour, salt and shortening with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in cheese. Add water gradually and mix lightly with fork to form dough. Divide pastry in halves and roll out one half to fit 9-in. pie pan. Roll second half of pastry and cut into 10 ( half in.) strips. Spoon filling into pastry-lined pan. Weave pastry strips across filling to make lattice top. Bake at 375 deg. 30 to 45 min. or until done. Serve warm. ----