Dessert Recipes - Apple Dumplings Recipe

Ingredients

• 225 g/8 oz/2 cups plain (all-purpose) flour

• 175 g/6 oz/3/4 cup butter, diced

• 30 ml/2 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar

• 1 egg, separated

• Cold water, to mix

• 4 large cooking (tart) apples

• 100 g/4 oz/1/2 cup light brown sugar

• A pinch of ground cloves

• Grated rind of 1 lemon

• Pouring cream, to serve

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Method:

1. Put the flour in a bowl and rub in 100 g/ 4 oz/1/2 cup of the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the caster sugar.

2. Add the egg yolk and enough cold water to form a soft but not sticky dough. Knead gently on a lightly floured surface. Wrap in Clingfilm (plastic wrap) and chill for 30 minutes.

3. Meanwhile, peel and core the apples but leave them whole. Mash the remaining butter with the brown sugar, cloves and lemon rind and pack into the centers of the apples.

4. Cut the pastry (paste) into four equal pieces. Roll out each piece to a circle. Place an apple in the centre of each. Brush the edges with a little of the lightly beaten egg white.

5. Gather up over the apples to encase completely. Place, sealed-sides down, on a baking (cookie) sheet. Cut leaves out of pastry trimmings.

6. Brush the dumplings with egg white to glaze. stick the leaves in position and brush again.

7. Bake in a preheated oven at 200C/400F/gas mark 6 for 20 minutes, then at 180C/350F/gas mark 4 for about 30 minutes until golden brown and cooked through. Serve with pouring cream.