Baked Apple Dumplings

• 8oz shortcrust pastry
• 4 small cooking apples
• 1oz

Roll out the pastry and cut four circles round a saucer. Peel and core the apples and put one in the centre of each piece of pastry. Fill the centre of the apples with a mixture of raisins, sugar, butter and cinnamon. Enclose the apples completely in pastry and invert on to a baking sheet. Brush the pastry with egg or milk and bake at 425 °F, 220°C gas mark 7 for twenty-five minutes. Sprinkle w