Apple Squares

Name: Apple Squares
Ingredients: 4 oz (100 g) butter; 2 oz (50 g) castor sugar; 8 oz (225 g) self-raising flour; 1 tablespoon sultanas (optional); flaked almonds, for sprinkling (optional); ½ level teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 lb (450 g) cooking apples; 4 oz (100 g) castor sugar; 1 large egg; icing sugar, for sprinkling

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Katie Stewart’s Cookbook

By Katie Stewart

Published 1983

About

Ingredients

8 oz (225 g) self-raising flour
4 oz (100

Pastry
Vegetarian

Method

Sift the flour into a mixing bowl. Add the butter in pieces and rub in with the fingertips until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar. Lightly beat the eggs, add to the mixture and lightly mix to a rough dough with a fork. Turn on to a floured work surface and knead just long enough to remove the cracks. Cover the pastry with upturned mixing bowl and leave to rest.