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Apple Recipes

Hot Spicy Apple Chutney

900g apples   2 tbsp salt   1 whole head garlic 15 peppercorns

5 fl oz cooking oil    2 tbsp mustard seed   1tsp fenugreek seeds  2cm fresh ginger   2 tsp grd cumin   1 tsp chilli powder 1 tsp turmeric  3 or 4 fresh green chillis seeded & chopped  5 fl oz vinegar   125 g sugar

Peel core and slice apples, sprinkle with salt. Grate ginger & garlic & fry in oil. Add all spices then add apples, vinegar & sugar. Stir and cook for 30 mins. Put in warmed jars with lids and seal.

Apple & Butter Bean Hotpot

200 g butter beans, soaked overnight and cooked. Chop and saute 3 apples and 2 onions in pan. Add butter beans and ½ tsp turmeric, mixed spice and cinnamon. Add 2-300ml veg stock. Cook for 20 mins.

Apple Loaf

½ lb self raising flour   ½ tsp salt   1 ½ oz butter or marg   3tbls soft brown sugar   1 egg   cinnamon + lemon juice  4 or 5 cooking apples peeled cored & chopped

Cream butter and sugar, add dry ingredients & apples. Add egg & enough milk to form dropping consistency, bake 20-30mins 180 C

Apple Crumble with a difference

Traditional recipe :

Chopped apple with a little sugar to taste in bottom of greased pyrex bowl. Top with crumble mix made from 6 oz SR flour, 3oz marg and 3 oz sugar rubbed together. Bake at 190 C gas mark 5 for 30mins

Variations :

Grate some fresh ginger and mix with apples or add raspberries or cranberries or blackberries – whatever you have. Add grated marzipan to the crumble mix.

Apple Cake

(suitable for vegans, also enjoyed by non vegans)
 
Swap cows milk in for soya if you prefer
 
Chop up some apples and cook to soften, quantity seems to be unimportant - 2 big cookers, windfalls, eaters or whatever you have.
Dry ingredients to be mixed together : 14oz SR flour, 7 oz sugar, 1/2 teasp mixed spice
Add in 200 ml sunflower oil
Mix separately then add to flour mixture :  300 ml soya milk or 200 ml milk + 100 ml water with 1 teasp bicarb of soda and 1 teasp lemon juice
Mix in softened apples.
Pour into 2 greased loaf tins or one large greased cake tin.
Slice more apples and arrange on the top pressing into the cake mix.
Sprinkle a little more mixed spice and some sugar on top.
Bake 180C for about 30 mins
 
Use brown sugar or white and whatever type of apples you have to hand, the recipe seems to be quite forgiving.

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