Ingredients
Apple filling
- 500 grams apples, peeled, cored, cut into eigths
- 1 strip of lemon rind
- 4 cloves
- sugar, to taste
- 500 grams hot water
Biscuit Pastry
- 130 grams Cold Butter, cubed
- 90 grams caster sugar
- 150 grams Plain Flour.
- 150 grams Self Raising Flour
- 1 egg
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Place apple eighths into varoma dish and tray (if needed) add 500 g hot water to bowl, and place varoma into position, set timer for 10-15 minutes/ varoma/ speed 3, check apples after 10 minutes, when apples are just tender, remove cloves and lemon strip, set aside to cool. This step can be done in advance. Check your apples for sweetness, this is crucial. Add sugar if needed while they are cooling.
Heat oven to 190 degrees (no fan)
Grease a tray of approx 27 cm by 18 cm
Add all of the ingredients for pastry to the bowl in the order specified, butter, sugar, flours and egg ( a large egg from a 700 g carton is best)
Lock the lid, m/c in place, set timer for 10 seconds and speed 6.
Open lid, scrape down the sides and repeat.
Take the pastry out of the bowl and onto your mat, press together until it is all one ball, dust with a little cornflour, wrap in the mat and place in fridge for 5 minutes.
Cut the pastry in half. Using as little cornflour as possible, roll out one half to fit your tray. Instead of lifting the pastry to turn, lift the mat so that the pastry drops on its face and that way you can roll out the other side, use this method to place the pastry into your tray, pressing lightly to fit. Prick the base with a fork and pre bake for 5 minutes while you repeat with the remaining dough. It is normal for the pastry to puff up while baking.
Take base out of oven, top with cooled apple filling and top with the remaining pastry, prick top with a fork and brush with milk to glaze.
Bake for approximtely 30-35 minutes or until golden and biscuit pastry is cooked, you can test with a skewer.
Sprinkle top with caster sugar and allow to become almost completely cold before cutting, you should get 12 servings.
Enjoy with custard, ice cream or just as it is.
Apple filling
Biscuit Pastry
Tip
Apples are best steamed the day or night before you wish to make this slice. lemon peel and cloves are optional and just sit them on top of the apples in the varoma.
The mixing bowl must be cold or the butter (also cold) will get too hot and the dough will be too soft. Don't overprocess this pastry or the biscuit dough will not have the right texture.
Please taste your apples for tartness and add sugar to taste, all apples are different.
Canned Pie Apples are suitable for this recipe, about 500 grams is sufficient.
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Recipe is created forTM 31
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Comments
I added a zest of one lemon and a dessert spoon custard powder to the cold cooked apples. The custard powder thickens up the stewed apples if they are a bit on the runny side from the sugar they were cooked in.
I also used two eggs which was written in my old cookbook. With one egg, the pastry was too dry to roll out.
after making the pastry in the Thermomix I put it into a large freezer bag and squashed it into a ball. Then I cut that in two. no messy benches
I put baking paper in the baking tray and folded the edges up the sides, I rolled the pastry directly in the baking tray, using a freezer bag on top of the pastry, so my little rolling pin didn't even get dirty
I did the same thing rolling the top on a separate piece of baking paper and was able to just slide it over the top of the apples Using a knife and my other hand while I pulled the freezer bag from under.
it turned out the most perfect top I have ever made.
Very tasty and easy. Thanks. Is it weird that i tasted the water from steaming the apples and it was actually nice, like an apple cordial and quite pleasant even though there was no sweetener
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My dad love's this apple slice and so easy to make
I put the cloves and lemon rind in with the apples and took them out once they cooled down, I was worried about the cloves but it was a perfect taste. Loved this recipe, was nice cold also warmed. Delish...
lemon rind and cloves are optional.
Luisa B
Just sit them on top of the apples in the varoma, then remove when cooked.
Luisa B
Family loved this and was great not needing anything but staples, no racing to the shops
Is the cloves and lemon rind put in the water or are they sitting with the apples?