Use fruit such as apples or rhubarb. It can be pre-stewed or put in raw.

Ingredients

2 or 3 cooking apples, peeled and sliced or chunks of rhubarb

sugar to sweeten fruit to taste

6 oz plain flour

3 oz margarine

3 oz granulated sugar

How to make it

Lightly grease a pyrex dish.

Put in the fruit and sprinkle sugar over the top and stir in. If using raw fruit, add a little water for it to cook in – just enough to cover the base of the dish’

Put the flour in a bowl.

Rub in the margarine with fingertips until like breadcrumbs

Stir in the sugar and mix well.

Pour the flour mixture over the fruit and cover entirely, pressing down gentl to firm the top.

Bake at 200c, 400F for 20 minutes or a little longer. It should be golden brown.

Serve with cream or custard.

N.B. Soak the dirty dish overnight and it will be very easy to clean.

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Ingredients
Base
50g (2 oz) butter
150g (5oz) chocolate digestives (crushed)
Filling
175g white chocolate (we used Tesco’s own). (Don’t use Milky Bar)
200g full fat cream cheese (1 tub)
1 egg
75 ml soured cream
3/4 teasoon vanilla essence

How to Make it
1. Preheat oven to 160C / Fan 140C / Gas Mark 3

2. Grease the base and sides of a pyrex pie plate.

3. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over a low heat.

4. Stir in the crushed biscuits (put the biscuits in a plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin).

5. Press the crumb mixture evenly over the base of the pyrex dish. Chill in the fridge.

6. Break the white chocolate into a bowl and melt over a pan of boiling water, stirring occasionally until the chocolate is smooth and runny.

7. Whisk the cream cheese and eggs together in a large bowl until smooth, then add the soured cream and vanilla and whisk again until completely smooth with no lumps.

8. Stir in the melted chocolate and mix well.

9. Pour the mixture over the biscuit base and bake in the oven for about 45 minutes until firm round the edge and just set in the middle

10. When it comes out of the oven, run a knife around the edge to loosen it, then allow to cool and then chill in the fridge.

11. To be posh you could decorate with strawnberries or dust with sieved cocoa or drinking chocolate powder.

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To make a pie that fits a pyrex glass plate

Ingredients

250g puff pastry

2 large or 3 small cooking apples

caster sugar

cinnamon

How to make it

1. Set oven to 200C, 400F.
2. Grease a pyrex pie plate or similar sized dish.
3. Lightly flour the table and roll out the pastry to fit as a lid on the pie.
4. Peel, core and slice the apples thinly.
5. Layer one apple over the pie dish.
6. Sprinkle with caster sugar to taste (about 2 tablespoons).
7. Sprinkle with approximately 1 dessertspoonful of ground cinnamon.
8. Layer the second apple over the first, and repeat with sugar and cinnamon.
9. Brush the edge of the dish with milk and cover with the pastry.
10. Cut off surplus pastry and make 2 small slits in centre to allow steam to escape.
11. Brush with milk and sprinkle with sugar if desired.
12. Bake in centre of oven for approximately 20-30 minutes, until golden brown.
13. Allow to cool a little and serve with double cream.

Tags: apple, caster sugar, cinnamon, puff pastry
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