Serves 8
Ingredients
Filling
5 peeled apples, chopped
¼ cup sugar
5 cloves
2 slices lemon peel
¼ cup water (Stew apples whilst making pastry otherwise as an alternative, tinned apples can be used)
Pastry
½ cup almond meal created from Mandolé Orchard Natural Almonds
125g melted butter
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup self-raising flour
½ cup raw sugar
Method
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Set oven to 180°C.
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For the filling, add apples, sugar, cloves, lemon peel and water to a saucepan. Bring to the boil then simmer until apples are soft.
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Prepare a pie dish by oiling with butter and sprinkling with almond meal.
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In a bowl, stir cooled melted butter, egg and vanilla first, then add self-raising flour, almond meal and sugar till combined.
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Press about ¾ of the mixture into the prepared dish. Top with hot stewed apples then drop dobs of extra pastry on top to cover apples. Sprinkle with some extra sugar.
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Bake in a moderate oven for 55 minutes.
This is a beautiful family favourite at Mandolé Orchard. Thank you Zia Lidia for sharing! Tootie x
