Mom's Apple Crisp

When I was first married in 1982, I looked in my Grinnell General Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Cook Book for an apple crisp recipe...I started making it and then I realized it was my own mother’s!

4 cups of sliced apples
1/4 cup of orange or lemon juice
1/2 cup of butter
1/2 cup of white sugar
1/2 cup of brown sugar
3/4 cup of flour
1/2 tsp of cinnamon

for a chewier crust you may add 1/2 cup of oatmeal
( 1/2 tsp of nutmeg may also be added.)

Arrange sliced apples in a pie pan, sprinkle with juice of lemon or orange. In a small bowl cut butter into sugars, add flour and spices. Pat onto the top of the apples.
Bake at
375* for 40 minutes

For Mixed Berries:
6 cups of berries
1 cup of sugar
2 Tbls of cornstarch
tiny bit of grated lemon or orange zest
dash of cinnamon
mix the sugar and the cornstarch together, add the cinnamon and the zest,
toss gently with the berries. put in pie pan and cover with topping.