Open Face Apple Pie

This would be great for tomorrow ....celebrate America...fireworks and apple pie is their anything better.

Open Face Apple Pie

1 cup water
1 cup sugar
5 large apples
2 Tablespoon margarine
2 Tablespoon flour
1 teaspoon lemon or orange peel
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 Tablespoon brandy , whiskey or rum
1 9-inch baked pie shell
1 cup whipping cream, whipped  sugar to taste

Combine sugar and water and cook until sugar is dissolved. Peel apples, quarter, core and cut each quarter in half. Drop apple slices into syrup and cook until tender., but still hold shape. Let stand 10 minutes,. then remove apples from syrup with slotted spoon and place in bowl. Cream together butter and flour. Add to hot syrup and cook until thickened. Stir in lemon peel, nutmeg and rum. pour thickened syrup over apples and chill. Shortly before serving., pour in pastry crust. Top with whipped cream.