Name: Cornish Onion and Apple Pie
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons finely chopped sage (use dried sage if you haven’t got any fresh); 500 g (18 oz) onions, sliced into thin rings and then chopped; 500 g (18 oz) cooking apples, peeled, cored and finely sliced; salt and pepper; ¼ teaspoon mixed spice; 3 tablespoons butter or Cornish clotted cream; 250 g (9 oz) shortcrust pastry

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Potty!

By Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 2010

About

This recipe comes from one of my great heroines, Dorothy Hartley, whose iconic book, Food in England, would almost certainly be my choice for a desert island book. I keep this by my bed and it is infinitely fascinating. I think some of her recipes are recorded for posterity rather than for eating, but this tasty dish