Dorset Apple Cake

Name: Dorset Apple Cake
Total time: 45 min
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: Apple and flour equal quantities; Apple and flour equal quantities; fat half the quantity, sugar half the quantity; salt, a pinch; baking powder 3 teaspoonfuls to the lb. of flour; baking powder 3 teaspoonfuls to the lb. of flour; milk enough to make a firm dough.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Miss Annette Vipan says: ‘I send the recipe of the apple cake as it was given me by a farmer’s wife in this village, North Chideock, Bridport. The quantities are my own as she weighed nothing.’

Ingredients

Recipe

Apple and flour equal quantities
fat half the quantity, sugar half the quantity
salt, a pinch

Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Rub the fat into the flour.
Add the salt and the baking powder.
Mix the sugar with the pared and chopped apple.
Stir into the flour mixture.
Make into a firm dough with the milk.
Make into a flat cake about ¾ inch