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Odlums Granny’s Apple Cake

What you need:

  • 225g/8oz Odlums Self Raising Flour
  • 175g/6oz Butter or Margarine
  • 175g/6oz Shamrock Golden Caster Sugar
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1 level teaspoon Goodall’s Cinnamon (optional)
  • 3 Apples (peeled & cored)

How to:

  1. Preheat oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas 5. Grease and base line a 900g/2lb loaf tin.
  2. Beat butter/margarine and sugar together. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  3. Stir in the sieved flour and cinnamon, if used.
  4. Roughly chop 2½ apples and stir into the mixture, then transfer to the prepared loaf tin.
  5. Slice the remaining half apple into thin circles and arrange on top of mixture.
  6. Bake for 30 minutes approx. Allow to stand in tin for about 5 minutes, then turn onto a wire tray to cool.
  7. To finish, dust with sieved icing sugar. Enjoy!

Granny’s Apple Cake

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Odlums Granny’s Apple Cake

What you need:

  • 225g/8oz Odlums Self Raising Flour
  • 175g/6oz Butter or Margarine
  • 175g/6oz Shamrock Golden Caster Sugar
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1 level teaspoon Goodall’s Cinnamon (optional)
  • 3 Apples (peeled & cored)

How to:

  1. Preheat oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas 5. Grease and base line a 900g/2lb loaf tin.
  2. Beat butter/margarine and sugar together. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  3. Stir in the sieved flour and cinnamon, if used.
  4. Roughly chop 2½ apples and stir into the mixture, then transfer to the prepared loaf tin.
  5. Slice the remaining half apple into thin circles and arrange on top of mixture.
  6. Bake for 30 minutes approx. Allow to stand in tin for about 5 minutes, then turn onto a wire tray to cool.
  7. To finish, dust with sieved icing sugar. Enjoy!

Granny’s Apple Cake

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Darina Allen’s Cullohill Apple Pie

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup (1 brick) Kerrygold Butter, at room temperature
  • 1/4 cup sugar, plus 2/3 cup for the filling and a little extra for sprinkling
  • 2 large eggs, plus an extra for egg wash
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 pounds (4 to 5) tart crisp apples, such as Granny Smith, peeled, quartered, cored, and sliced
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves

Directions:

Cream butter and 1/4 cup of the sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer; add 2 of the eggs and beat until smooth. Reduce mixer speed and add flour a heaping half cup at a time to form stiff but sticky dough. Turn onto a floured surface and form into a ball. Divide dough into 2/3 and 1/3 portions; wrap each in plastic and press to flatten into a round. Refrigerate at least 1 hour and up to 3 days. When ready to bake, adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Toss apples with remaining 2/3 cup of sugar and the cloves. Roll the larger dough round on a floured surface to a 13-inch circle; fit into a 10-inch tart pan or a 9 1/2-inch deep-dish pie plate. Turn apples into pie plate. Roll remaining portion of dough on a floured surface into a 10-inch circle. Lay pastry over apples and pinch with bottom piece of dough to seal; flute edges. Brush with an egg wash, and decoratively slit the dough top with a paring knife. Bake until pie is golden brown, 45 to 60 minutes. Remove to a wire rack to cool. Cut into slices and serve.

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Odlums Blackberry & Apple Crumble

odlums blackberry crumble

Ingredients:

Crumble

50g/2oz Odlums Porridge Oatflakes
50g/2oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
150g/5oz Shamrock Golden Caster Sugar
200g packet Shamrock Ground Almonds
175g/6oz Butter
50g/2oz Pine Nuts (optional)

Filling

175g/6oz Blackberries
450g/1lb Stewed Apples

and

Sugar to sweeten apples and blackberries

Method:

  1. Place the flour, sugar and oatflakes into a bowl.
  2. Add butter and rub into the dry ingredients with tips of your fingers to form a crumble. Mix in the ground almonds and finally stir in the pine nuts, if used.
  3. Mix the blackberries and apples together and place in an oven-proof dish. Sweeten with sugar to taste.
  4. Spread crumble over the fruit.
  5. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 190°C/375°F/ Gas 5 for 15 to 20 minutes approx.
  6. Serve hot with cream, ice cream, custard, yoghurt or crème fraiche.

To stew apples

  1. Peel, core and roughly chop apples. Place in saucepan with a little water (3 tablespoons approx) and place over a low heat, stirring occasionally until apples are softened. When apples are soft, if liked, add a pinch of cinnamon at this stage.

    Recipe Notes:

    Apples can also be stewed in a microwave. Place apples and water in a deep microwaveable bowl and cook on HIGH for approx 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Blackberry & Apple Crumble

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Rachel’s Smoked Mackerel, Apple and Fennel Salad

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Serves 4-6.

You will need:

5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

2 tablespoons lemon juice

Salt and freshly-ground black pepper

2 fennel bulbs, trimmed and cut lengthways into 3-4mm (¼in) slices

2 apples (unpeeled), quartered, cored and cut into wedges 5mm (¼in-½in) thick

4 smoked mackerel fillets, skin removed and flesh torn into bite-sized chunks

4 handfuls of rocket leaves

First, add the extra-virgin olive oil and the lemon juice to a large bowl. Season with the salt and freshly ground black pepper, then whisk everything together. Next, add in the sliced fennel, the wedges of apple and the chunks of mackerel. Mix together well, then add the rocket leaves and gently toss everything together to dress the leaves. 
Divide between plates and serve immediately.

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Odlums Blackberry & Apple Crumble

odlums blackberry crumble

Ingredients:

Crumble

50g/2oz Odlums Porridge Oatflakes
50g/2oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
150g/5oz Shamrock Golden Caster Sugar
200g packet Shamrock Ground Almonds
175g/6oz Butter
50g/2oz Pine Nuts (optional)

Filling

175g/6oz Blackberries
450g/1lb Stewed Apples

and

Sugar to sweeten apples and blackberries

Method:

  1. Place the flour, sugar and oatflakes into a bowl.
  2. Add butter and rub into the dry ingredients with tips of your fingers to form a crumble. Mix in the ground almonds and finally stir in the pine nuts, if used.
  3. Mix the blackberries and apples together and place in an oven-proof dish. Sweeten with sugar to taste.
  4. Spread crumble over the fruit.
  5. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 190°C/375°F/ Gas 5 for 15 to 20 minutes approx.
  6. Serve hot with cream, ice cream, custard, yoghurt or crème fraiche.

To stew apples

  1. Peel, core and roughly chop apples. Place in saucepan with a little water (3 tablespoons approx) and place over a low heat, stirring occasionally until apples are softened. When apples are soft, if liked, add a pinch of cinnamon at this stage.

    Recipe Notes:

    Apples can also be stewed in a microwave. Place apples and water in a deep microwaveable bowl and cook on HIGH for approx 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Blackberry & Apple Crumble