Isn't this a thing of beauty?
I wish I could say I'd cooked it myself but these are the apple pies they make at the Farmgate café in Midleton, Co. Cork.
There's something very special about an Irish apple pie. The filling is a wonderful chunky mound of sweet fruit, the pastry wafer thin and crisp with a lavish dusting of caster sugar. It's much lighter and less stodgy than an English apple pie.
Judging by this recipe the crucial difference is that they use eating rather than cooking apples and a high proportion of fat to flour - plus some sour cream.
I'm off cooking duty this week but shall have to have a crack at it when I get home.
3 comments:
Oooh Fiona! That looks gooood.
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If only, Charlie ;-)
Am discovering some things are cheap in Ireland, though.
Potatoes (surprise, surprise)
Bread - and it's very good
Scones
Apple pie
Bacon
onions
Guinness
and mackerel
We're staying on an organic farm and have access to their greenhouses which is bliss . . .
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