Apple pie recipes for Mothers Day: Pink lady apple, raspberry and elderflower pie

By Diana Henry 940AM GMT twelve March 2010

Perfect for Mother"s Day Pink woman apple, hiss and elderflower cake Photo PETER CASSIDY

Serves 6 to eight

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225g (8oz) solid flour

150g (5oz) butter

3 tbsp caster sugar

1 egg yolk, from a small egg

5 Pink Lady apples

200ml (7fl oz) elderflower cordial

100ml (3fl oz) water

25g (1oz) belligerent almonds

300g (10oz) solidified raspberries

15g (oz) flaked almonds

icing sugarine for dusting

Put the flour and butter in to a food processor and whizz until the reduction resembles breadcrumbs. Add the caster sugarine and whizz again. Now supplement the yolk and whizz a small some-more until the fritter comes together in to a ball. You might have to supplement a small cold H2O to assistance it. Wrap in clingfilm and leave to rest in the refrigerator for 45 mins or so.

Quarter and core the apples, withdrawal the flay on. Cut each entertain in to slices about 4mm (1/6in) thick. Put in to a vessel with the considerate and H2O and prepare kindly until they are only proposal on the outside. Strain off the liquid and measure. If it is some-more than about 75ml (2fl oz) bring to boil to revoke it to this volume. Pour over the apples and leave to cool completely.

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas symbol 5 and put in a steel baking-sheet to warm.

Roll out dual thirds of the fritter and make use of it to line a cake plate measuring 25cm (10in) in hole and 6cm (2in) deep. Sprinkle the belligerent almonds on the bottom of the pie. Lay the apples and the raspberries on top, adding syrup as you go. Roll out the rest of the fritter and cut in to eight strips to form a lattice. Moisten each finish and lay opposite the tip of the pie, interweaving as you go.

Press down the ends to seal.

Put the cake in the oven on the baking-sheet and prepare until the ripened offspring is proposal and the fritter golden about thirty minutes. Eight mins prior to the end, separate on the flaked almonds and lapse to the oven. Dust the cake easily with topping sugarine to serve.