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Ingredients

  • 400 g cooking apples
  • 1 grated lemon, juice and rind of
  • 75 g demerara sugar
  • 15 ml water
  • fat, for greasing
  • 75 g butter or 75 g margarine
  • 75 g caster sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 100 g self-raising flour

Method

  • Peel, core and slice the apples thinly. Mix together with the lemon rind and juice, sugar and water and put into a greased 1 litre pie dish.
  • Cream the fat and caster sugar together until light and fluffy.
  • Beat the egg until liquid and beat into the creamed mixture.
  • Fold in the flour lightly and spread the mixture over the apples.
  • Bake in a moderate oven at 180C, gas mark 4 for 40 - 45 minutes until the apples are soft and the sponge is firm.
  • Serve with pouring custard or melted apple jelly and single cream.