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"Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite."--Ruth Reichl

Irish Apple Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cup cake or pastry flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup cold unsalted butter (in bits)
1/3 cup cold milk
2 cooked apples, peeled
3 tbsp maple syrup
1 tbsp milk
2 eggs
Directions:
Directions:
Sift flour, sugar and baking powder into large bowl; cut in butter
Make a well in centre; beat 1 of the eggs with a fork and add to well together with 1/3 cup milk, reserving 1 tbsp for later
With a wooden spoon, stir until dough is soft and sticky but not forming a ball, add a bit more milk if necessary (dough wil be quite rough)
With well-floured hand, transfer half the dough to buttered 9 inch pie plate
Pat evenly onto bottom and sides of plate
Scatter apple chunks over dough; drizzle with syrup
Sprinkle with ground cloves
Beat remaining egg with remaining 1 tbsp milk
Brush some around the edge of dough
Sprinkle large dinner plate with flour;
Pat remaining dough onto plate with floured hands
Invert over apples, pressing edges of crust together with floured tines of fork
Make 1 slit in top for steam to escape, brush liberally with egg glaze
Bake in 350ºf for 40 to 50 minutes or until golden

 

 

 

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