Apple Crisp

One wonderful day during my junior year of undergraduate studies at Miami, one of my three fabulous roommates hung up the phone with a huge smile on her face. The first apples were appearing in the orchards in her hometown in Michigan, and her mother's descriptions of the new fruit had prompted my roommate to decide to make the family's traditional apple crisp recipe. We made the apple crisp that day, and it was made repeatedly in our roomy University Commons apartment for the remainder of that year and in our house on North Beech Street the following year. So simple, yet very delicious. I always crave it during this time of the year.

Ingredients:
8 apples, freshly picked or fallen
7 tablespoons water
1/2 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
1 stick butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup flour

Directions:
Peel apples and cut into skinny slices. Spread in 9x13 pan. Sprinkle water, sugar, and cinnamon evenly over apples. In bowl, mash together butter, brown sugar, and flour with fork. Sprinkle this topping mixture over apple mixture. Bake at 325 degrees for 40 minutes if using glass pan and at 350 degrees for 40 minutes if using metal pan.