The Bishops’ Kitchen – October 21

This month you are offered two more delicious Apple recipes –

TREACLE APPLE PUDDING

• 3 cooking apples, peeled cored & chopped
• about 250g of apple
• 100g light brown sugar
• 50g golden syrup plus
• 2 tbsp. butter for greasing
• 1 eating apple
• squeeze lemon juice
• 175g self-raising flour
• 1tsp bicarbonate soda
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1tsp ground ginger
• 1 large egg

Method:

Put apples in saucepan.  Add 100ml water bring to boil cover & cook for 5 mins until the apples are very soft. Then beat to a puree, add sugar & 50g of syrup bring to a simmer then leave to cool.
Grease a 1.3 litre pudding basin and by spoon add 2 tbsp of syrup into the bottom.
Peel & core the eating apple, slice half & chop rest. Then toss in lemon juice & place the sliced apple in syrup in the bottom of basin.
Sift the flour bicarb, spices & pinch of salt into a bowl.
Beat the egg into the apple sauce, add remaining chopped apple then tip into the bowl & stir until smooth.
It will  start to rise a little as you mix quickly turn the batter into the basin, level & the top.
Bake for 40-45 mins @180/gas 4 until well risen & until  a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Cover with foil towards the end of cooking if the sponge browns to quickly leave to rest for 5mins turn onto plate & serve.

APPLE STRUDEL

• 750g Bramley apples peeled cored & sliced
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 lemon zest only
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 100g caster sugar
• 75g raisins
• 95g butter
• 40g white bread crumbs
• 1tbsp icing sugar
• 6 large sheets filo pastry

Method:

Pre heat oven to 190c/gas5 line a baking tray with baking parchment.
Mix the apples with lemon zest, lemon juice, cinnamon, sugar & raisins, in a small frying pan.
Melt 20g butter & fry the breadcrumbs until golden brown then add to apple mix.
Melt the remaining butter in a pan, on a clean, dry tea-towel lay a sheet of the filo & brush with melted butter lay another sheet on top & repeat until you have used all of the filo.
Pile the filling along the length of the pastry and on one side about 3cm from the edge using the tea-towel to help you, roll the pastry up to enclose the filling.
Tuck the ends in & roll seam-side down onto the baking sheet brush with the remaining melted butter.
Bake for 40-45 mins until golden brown leave to cool to room temperature & dust with icing sugar.

Enjoy!

All recipes are from village resident, Richard Childs.

Missed a recipe? Click HERE to view Richard’s earlier recipes and other seasonal ideas.

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