Apple cake

This delicious shortcake was a Gray family favourite. Mary remembers her mother making it regularly, as the school residences they lived in usually came with a garden that had apple trees. She suspects the recipe was handed down by Jane’s grandmother, who also had ready access to apple trees on the fruit block at Coonawarra. Mary recalls it being made in a shallow cake pan but the early version provided for the Suttontown Recipe Book is a rustic, free-form apple cake, put together us