Double two-Apple Pie

Wanted to try a different Apple Pie for Thanksgiving, and because I love the Super Pumpkin-y Pumpkin Pie from this book, I thought I'd give the apple a try. It was good but still prefer the Apple- Brown Sugar Pie from Macrina Bakery - it's piled high with apples, while this one is a bit shallow, has just the right amount of juice (maybe because of the butter?) and spice, while this one was a slightly dry (filling never bubbled up thru the lattice) and flavor was pretty average. This recipe has you par baked the bottom crust before filling and adding the lattice, which may ensure a crisp bottom crust but also is kind of a pain to seal (top to bottom) nicely. The biggest problem however was I ran short on crust and some of my lattice wasn't long enough to cover the pie (even tho it was not a deep pie). That said I love this recipe for crust (Pate Brisee 2 from the book).