Ingredients
Pastry
- 225g/8oz plain flour
- 1/2 Tsp Salt
- 50g/2oz Lard
- 50g/2oz Butter
- 25g/1oz Caster Sugar
- 30 ml Water
Filling
- 1oz Sugar
- 2 Tsp cinnamon
- 2lb Cooking apples
- 1oz Sultanas
- 30ml Water
Directions
Filling
Peel and core apples and chop them up into small bits.
Put in pan with water, sugar, sultanas and cinnamon, and cook half way.
Leave to stand on a side, why you get pastry ready for the pie.
Pastry
In a bowl sift the flour and salt together.
Cut up lard , butter into flour, and then rub in with your fingers.
Add to it the sugar then, add the water to form a stiff dough.
Put on a well floured work top and roll out the base for your pie.
Line pie tray with pastry and fill with apple filling.
Roll out pastry lid and cover pie.
Bake pie on 180c /350f/gas mark 4 til golden brown.