Dessert Recipes - Apple and Raisin Meringue Recipe

Ingredients

• 450 g/1 lb cooking (tart) apples, sliced

• 30 ml/2 tbsp water

• Caster (superfine) sugar, to taste

• 50 g/2 oz/1/3 cup raisins

• 5 ml/1 tsp ground cinnamon

• 40 g/1 1/2 oz/3 tbsp corn flour (cornstarch)

• 450 ml/2 cups milk

• 2 eggs, separated

• Glace (candied) cherries and angelica leaves, to decorate

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Method:

1. Put the apple slices in a saucepan with the water. Cover and cook gently until pulpy, stirring occasionally. Sweeten to taste with the caster sugar and stir in the raisins and cinnamon.

2. Turn into a 1.2 liter/2 pt/5 cup ovenproof dish. Blend the corn flour with a little of the milk and 40 g/3 tbsp caster sugar in a saucepan.

3. Whisk in the egg yolks and stir in the remaining milk. Bring to the boil and cook for 2 minutes, stirring all the time, until thickened and smooth. Pour over the apple mixture.

4. Whisk the egg whites until stiff and whisk in 50 g/2 oz caster sugar. Fold in a further 50 g/2 oz caster sugar. Pile on top of the custard and decorate with cherries and angelica leaves.

5. Bake in a preheated oven at 160°C/325°F/gas mark 3 for 10-15 minutes until the meringue is a pale biscuit color.