Sunday

German apple pie


















Type of dish : Dessert
To serve : 10
Preparation : 45 min
Cooking : 45 min
Budget : Cheap
From : Germany
Difficulty : Medium


Ingredients :
160g butter
80g sugar
2 tablespoons lemon zest
1 pinch salt
2 eggs

Filling :
1 kg red apples, preferably Cox's Pippins
100g sugar
100g raisins
30g butter
2 tablespoons icing sugar
1 tablespoons rum
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 or 4 small macaroons
1 egg yolk

Recipe :
Chop the butter into small pieces and put in bowl with sieved flour. Rub in with fingers until perfectly combined, then add eggs, sugar, salt and lemon zest.
Roll into a ball and leave to chill in fridge.

Meanwhile, prepare the apples :
Peel, core and slice apples into a bowl.
Add sugar, raisins and cinnamon, stir well.

Grease a cake tin or pie dish and line with 2/3 of pastry.
Crush the macaroons and sprinkle on bottom.
Put apple mixture on top and sprinkle with rum and 30g melted butter.
Cover with rest of pastry, pinch edges to seal and brush with egg yolk.
Cook until golden in an oven preheated to 350°F(180°C)
Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, or hot with custard.


Advice :
Leave to settle before taking out of flan dish.
Dust with icing sugar before serving.



Coconut and lime cream


















Type of dish : Dessert
To serve : 4
Preparation : 25 min
Cooking : 10 min
Budget : Reasonable
From : Thailand
Difficulty : Medium


Ingredients :
250ml milk
250ml coconut milk
1 lime
3 egg yolkss
60g sugar
1 sachet vanilla sugar or teaspoon vanilla essence
1/4 teaspoon cornflour
1 tablespoon rum
2 blocks gelatine


Recipe :
Dissolve the gelatine in cold water.
Wash and dry the lime, finely grate zest.
Whsik the egg yolks, sugar and vanilla, in a bowl until the mixture is white and stiff.
Bring milk to the boil.
Add the cornflour and hot milk, whisking slowly.
Pour mixture into saucepan.
Heat, but do not boil until mixture is creamy.
Remove from heat and add lime zest.
Cover and leave to simmer.
Strain the gelatine and heat, with a tablespoon of water.
Once it has completely dissolved, add coconut milk and rum and stir.
Put into individual pots and chill for 2 hours before serving.


Advice :
This dessert goes very well with a cup of tea.