Ingredients

1 lb beef mince

3 small apples

1 onion

1 dessertspoonful curry powder

1 tablespoon vinegar

1 slice bread soaked in 1 cup milk

1 egg

Pinch salt

1 teaspoon sugar

1 dessertspoon apricot jam

handul of raisins or sultanas

1 oz dessicated coconut

1 tablespoon chutney

How to Make it

1. In large frying pan, ightly fry the onion and apples. Set aside on plate.
2. Lightly brown the mince until no longer pink.
3. Drain the milk from the bread and reserve the liquid.
4. Add the bread to the mince.
5. Add salt, vinegar and sugar to mince mixture.
6. Add the onions and apples to mixture.
7. Beat the egg with the drained off milk and add to the mixture.
8. Stir in the jam, raisins, coconut and chutney (adjust or leave out according to taste).
9. Turn the mixture into the buttered pyrex dish.
10. Bake in oven for 40 mins at 350F, 180C 170C (fan oven).
11. Prepare small dishes of chopped and sliced accompaniments – banana, tomatoes, pineapple, dessicated coconut, chutney, peppers
12. Serve with boiled rice.

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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.

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