Apple plate pie

Name: Apple plate pie
Yield: To Serve Six
Cuisine: Northern Europe
Ingredients: 675 g (1½ lb) cooking apples such as Bramleys; good pinch ground cinnamon; good pinch ground cloves; 1 strip lemon peel; 1 tablespoon water; 250 g (9 oz) shortcrust pastry made with 175 g (6 oz) flour, 75 g (3 oz) butter, 25 g (1 oz) lard, pinch salt; 250 g (9 oz) shortcrust pastry made with 175 g (6 oz) flour, 75 g (3 oz) butter, 25 g (1 oz) lard, pinch salt; 250 g (9 oz) shortcrust pastry made with 175 g (6 oz) flour, 75 g (3 oz) butter, 25 g (1 oz) lard, pinch salt; 250 g (9 oz) shortcrust pastry made with 175 g (6 oz) flour, 75 g (3 oz) butter, 25 g (1 oz) lard, pinch salt; 250 g (9 oz) shortcrust pastry made with 175 g (6 oz) flour, 75 g (3 oz) butter, 25 g (1 oz) lard, pinch salt; 250 g (9 oz) shortcrust pastry made with 175 g (6 oz) flour, 75 g (3 oz) butter, 25 g (1 oz) lard, pinch salt; hazelnut-sized lump of softened butter; hazelnut-sized lump of softened butter; milk and granulated sugar for glazing; milk and granulated sugar for glazing; milk and granulated sugar for glazing

Preparation info

To Serve
Six

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

British Cooking

By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

About

A piece of quince, if you can obtain this hard winter fruit, bright yellow and sweetly scented, gives a lovely old-fashioned flavour to apple pie; but if you can’t don’t worry. The aroma of the cinnamon and cloves alone will give the apples an extra fillip.

Ingredients

675 g (1½ lb) cooking apples such as Bramleys
75 g (3

Europe
United Kingdom
Pie
Dessert
Winter

Method

Peel the apples (and quince if you have one), quarter and core them. Place the quarters in a small casserole with the sugar, butter, spices, lemon peel, and a tablespoon of water (and the piece of quince if you have it). Cover the casserole, bring it to the boil and then let it simmer very gently either on top or in the oven for 30 minutes until the apples are like amber, and fairly dry. Let th