Early American Apple Pie

Ingredients

 * 1 pastry dough, for a 9 inch pie
 * 6 – 8 apples, peeled,cored and thinly sliced
 * ¼ cup sugar
 * ¾ cup gingersnap crumbs
 * 1 tablespoon flour
 * ½ teaspoon cinnamon
 * ⅛ teaspoon nutmeg
 * ¼ teaspoon salt
 * ½ cup chopped walnuts
 * ¼ cup melted butter
 * ½ cup pure maple syrup

Directions

 * 1) Preheat oven to 350°F.
 * 2) Place half the sliced apples in the pastry shell.
 * 3) In a mixing bowl combine the sugar, gingersnap crumbs, flour, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, walnuts and butter.
 * 4) Sprinkle half the mixture over the apples in the pie shell.
 * 5) Layer the remaining apples over the crumb mixture.
 * 6) Sprinkle with the remaining crumbs.
 * 7) Bake 45 minutes.
 * 8) Heat the maple syrup to boiling and pour evenly over the pie.
 * 9) Bake 15 to 20 minutes.