Fresh Apple Pastry Squares - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 1/2 c. unsifted all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
1 c. plus 2 Tbsp. butter or margarine
1 egg yolk
milk
1 c. crushed corn flakes
8 c. peeled, cored and sliced apples
2/3 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 egg white, stiffly beaten
1 c. sifted confectioners sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 to 2 Tbsp. water

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400\u00b0.
In large bowl, stir flour and salt together.
Cut in butter with pastry blender until crumbly.
Beat egg yolk lightly with fork in a measuring cup.
Add enough milk to egg yolk to make 2/3 cup.
Stir milk into flour mixture; mix with fork to blend, stirring until mixture holds together and cleans sides of bowl.
Divide the dough into 2 parts.
Roll half of dough to line a 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1-inch pan.
Place dough in pan, pressing down lightly to form bottom crust.
Sprinkle bottom crust with corn flakes.