Blackberry and Apple Pie

Name: Blackberry and Apple Pie
Yield: Serves Six
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 400g (14oz) blackberries; 3 large Bramley apples; juice of 1 lemon; 1 tablespoon milk; 50g (1 ¾oz) butter; 350g (12oz) plain flour, plus extra for dusting; a pinch of salt; 200g (7oz) cold butter, cut into fine dice; 1 egg; 2 egg yolks; 4–5 tablespoons cold water; 1 tablespoon granulated sugar, plus 2 teaspoons extra

Preparation info

Serves
Six

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Long and Messy Business

By Rowley Leigh

Published 2018

About

It is a challenge to cook the bottom crust properly: it needs a lot of heat from below, and a fair bit of time. By the time the base is cooked, the blackberry juices will be bubbling up and staining the top crust. This is entirely in order.

Ingredients

For the Pastry

350g (12oz) plain flour, plus extra for dusting
a pinch of

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
August
England
Vegetarian

Method

For the pastry, place the flour in a large bowl and add the salt, then the butter. Rub the flour into the butter with your fingertips, working quickly and lightly to achieve a coarse breadcrumb texture. Add the egg yolks and work into the mixture with the fingertips before adding most of the cold water. Gather it lightly into a dough, kneading it very gently into a ball. Divide this dough in tw