Apple and Sultana Danish Pastries

Name: Apple and Sultana Danish Pastries
Yield: Makes 12
Ingredients: 25 g/1 oz/3 tbsp sultanas (golden raisins); 15 ml/1 tbsp cornflour (cornstarch); flaked (sliced) almonds, for sprinkling; 1 egg, separated; 5 ml/1 tsp lemon juice; 2.5 ml/½ tsp salt; 350 g/12 oz cooking apples, diced; 75 ml/5 tbsp milk; 1 egg; 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp butter; 15 g/½ oz/1 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar; 225 g/8 oz/2 cups unbleached white bread flour; 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar; 140 g/5 oz/⅔ cup butter, softened; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp easy bake (rapid-rise) dried yeast; 30 ml/2 tbsp water

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook

By Jennie Shapter

Published 2010

About

These Danish pastries are filled with fruit and are beautifully light and flaky.

Ingredients

For the Danish Pastry

1 egg
75 ml/5 tbsp milk

Dessert
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Place the egg and milk in the bread pan. Reverse the order in which you add the liquid and dry ingredients if necessary. Sprinkle over the flour, covering the liquid. Add the sugar, salt and 25g/1oz/2 tbsp of the butter in separate corners.
Make a shallow indent in the centre of the flour; add the yeast. Set the bread machine to the dough setting; use