Recipes from Broomfields Apples

Fiona's Delicious Home Made Apple and Cinnamon Pie

Pastry

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup cooking oil
• 2 tablespoons cold full fat or semi skimmed milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon natural salt
• Filling
• 4 Bramley apples, cored and sliced
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 3 tablespoons self raising flour
• 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Pie Topping

• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup Brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine

DIRECTIONS:

• Warm oven to 175 degrees C or 350 degrees F
• Pastry: In a large bowl, mix together 1 1/2 cups flour, oil, milk, 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar and salt until evenly blended. Pat mixture into a Dinner Plate sized pie pan, spreading the pastry evenly over the bottom and up sides. Crimp edges of the dough around the perimeter.
• Filling: Mix together 3/4 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Sprinkle over apples and toss to coat. Spread evenly in unbaked pie shell.
• Topping: Using a pastry cutter, mix together 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 cup sugar and butter until evenly distributed and crumbly in texture. Sprinkle over apples.
• Put pie in the oven on a baking tray to catch the juices that may spill over.
• Bake 45 minutes.

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