Old Fashioned Peach Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

homemade pastry for 1 (9-inch) double crust pie
3 lb. fresh peaches, peeled and sliced
2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
1 c. sugar
1/2 c. unsifted, unbleached flour
1 tsp. grated lemon peel
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 Tbsp. butter

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400\u00b0.
Toss sliced peaches with lemon juice. Stir in sugar, flour, lemon peel and nutmeg.
Roll half the pastry into an 11-inch circle; fit into a 9-inch pie plate.
Roll out remaining pastry for top crust.
Spoon peach mixture into pie shell.
Cover with top crust; trim, fold edge under and crimp. Cut a round hole in the top; make leaves out of extra pastry and place at top of hole.
Bake 45 to 50 minutes.
Serve with ice cream if you like.