Serves: 6
Preparation time: 35 minutes plus chilling time
Cooking time: 30 minutes
You will need
For the pastry:
250g plain flour
50g caster or icing sugar
1 lemon, grated rind only
125g butter, diced
3 egg yolks
For the filling:
500g cooking apples, quartered, cored, peeled and sliced
Juice 1 lemon
175g blackberries
50g caster sugar
1tbsp cornflour
Little beaten egg or milk to glaze
Little extra caster sugar for sprinkling
Method
1. To make the pastry, add the flour, sugar, lemon rind and butter to a mixing bowl. Rub the butter into the flour with fingertips or an electric mixer until it resembles fine crumbs. Add the egg yolks and mix with a round bladed knife then squeeze together with fingertips to make a soft dough. Chill for 30 minutes.
2. Mix the apple slices with the lemon juice then add the blackberries, sugar and cornflour and toss together.
3. Lightly knead the pastry then roll out on a lightly floured surface until a rough shaped circle about 33 centimetres in diameter. Lift over a rolling pin on to a large baking sheet. Pile the fruit mix high in the centre then fold the pastry up and over the filling, leaving the centre uncovered and pleating the pastry slightly to make a large round pie.
4. Brush the top edges of the pastry with beaten egg or milk then sprinkle with a little caster sugar. Bake in a preheated oven set to 190°C/ gas mark 5 for 25 to 30 minutes until the pastry is golden and the fruit tender. Serve warm cut into wedges with scoops of vanilla ice cream.
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