Blackberry and Apple Pie

This otherwise traditional English pie also uses cornmeal in the pastry, to soak up the liquid given off by the blackberries when cooking. Otherwise I love this pretty much uninterfered with. The apples come from the tree in my garden and I use the leaves as a template for the decoration on top.

I like a jugful of cream with this, but ice cream seems to be everyone else’s favourite whenever I’ve made it. Traditionally, though, it should be eaten with some creamy, vanilla-scented, eg