Wednesday 20 August 2008

Oh, the joy of a good apple pie!


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.
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3 comments:

  1. Julia20 August 2008 at 12:29

    Oooh Fiona! That looks gooood.

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  2. TrillianAstra20 August 2008 at 16:09

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  3. Fiona Beckett20 August 2008 at 18:58

    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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