september recipe ...... Apple and Lavender deep filled pie
Get your locally grown cooking and eating apples and lavender sugar at Slaney Country Market…….
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- 12oz plain flour
- 1oz icing sugar
- 6oz butter
- 1 beaten egg
For the filling:
- 3 cooking apples
- 5 eating apples
- 5 small sprigs of lavender
- Caster sugar
Method:
- Rub bitter into sift flour and icing sugar, add beaten egg and cold water to bind.
- Line greased deep pie dish with pastry and roll out pastry lid.
- Slice apples (leave peel on) and fill lined pastry dish with apples and lavender and sugar.
- Cover with pastry lid, brush with beaten egg and sprinkle with lavender sugar.
- Bake in a moderate oven for 45 minutes.
- Serve with custard flavoured with lavender sugar.
- Enjoy
Support your local Slaney Country Market producers..