Craig Harzewski usually saves his apple pie baking for fall. However, he makes a flaky pie dough and tosses sweet apples with cinnamon, brown sugar and corn starch and bakes away.

But for a 4th of July treat he makes his wife her favorite pie which is a Blueberry/Cranberry pie - very all-American in Red, (brown pie crust) and Blue.

My wife make the best apple pie. I don't know what she does but it is always the best. Maybe it's the love.

Dude...Crane's Pie in Fenneville, MI can piss on any apple pie period...been eating them since childhood. apples from their orchard...same old ladies making the dough by hand...and the cute young gals serving the pie, come on...........they win

Isn't July 4th a little early for apple pie???

We make our apple pie with Jonathon apples very straight forward. No cinnamon just apples!

My Mother Helen makes Apple Pie Squares. It was always the bit hit for late summer and Thanksgiving. She makes her crust with lard and she uses a Golden Delicious style apple scented with a little cinnamon and clove. She makes a beautiful shiny crust with nice decorations and it is thick, about 3 inches high. It was simple and carefree to eat.

Always a flaky buttery pie dough. I layer the bottom with a small amount of vanilla custard. I mix some half dehydrated apples with sugar and vanilla beans. I like my slice of pie with a small amount ofcheddar cheese on top. Perhaps a dollup of chantilly cream.. or I could go a la mode as well.

Freshly rendered white leaf lard (from the fat right around the kidneys) makes absolutely the best short pastry, so I prefer that. When cooking for vegetarians, organic virgin palm oil comes in a close second for fine texture.

During the summer, I like to use good tart summer apples, cinnamon, and hints of clove and allspice. A little butter, flour, and cornstarch is all that's needed for a stand-up pie, as summer apples have lots of pectin and plenty of texture.

I like to make a cream cheese crust and bake it raw with apples and brown sugar and a touch of cornstarch inside. I add some smoked peanuts to garnish with fresh apple mint and good old fashioned vanilla ice cream

i make an apple yart that i prefer to pie, but i do like making apple pie with a crispy lard crust, apples, lemonsbrown sugar and butter, super charp cheddar is sometimes involved too.