Just made 50 pies before Canadian Thanksgiving this month. I had the kids help peel and slice apples. We placed them in a large bowl with water a bit of salt and lemon juice to prevent browning. Then cooked up apple pie filling and froze in plastic wrap lined foil pie pans. Then on another day I made enough dough for 50 bottom crusts and formed them in my Birds Hill manual pie machine - took about one hour. Froze those too. Few days later I made 50 top crusts with my manual pie machine and stacked between dry waxed pizza sheets and froze. Then when I had some time I took out 10 filling, 10 tops and 10 bottoms and assembled the pies. The pastry thawed enough to crimp and flute the edges. The. Back into the freezer. Did this until they were all done. Then bagged frozen pies in large freezer zip lock bags and labelled with baking instructions. We sold them to raise funds for a school trip for our kids. It was a lot of fun!

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