Apple Torte (Easy-Only 3 Apples)

Description: From the Star Ledger. Published in "Jersey Fresh Cooks" (NJ Dept. of Agriculture) from Harriet Kurtzman. This is easy and good!

Ingredients:

• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3 large apples, peeled, cored, cut into crescent slices

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Cream toghether butter and sugar. Add egg and beat.
3. Sift together flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
4. Beat dry ingredients into butter mixture.
5. Stir apples into batter, which will be thick and hard to stir.
6. Turn into a buttered 9" pie pan and spread smooth.
7. Bake for 1 hour, until just brown.