Mags’ apple and blackberry pie: Today @RTEfood

Ingredients

  • 6 pink lady apple
  • 500g frozen blackberries
  • 100g caster sugar
  • Juice and zest one lemon

Pastry

  • 400g plain flour
  • 250g butter
  • 200g icing sugar
  • Teaspoon salt
  • 3 egg yolk
  • Water splash

Method

  1. Cook apple until soft in a pan, add blackberries when apples are nearly cooked.
  2. Mix together. Add juice and zest lemon. Let cool.

Pastry

  1. Rub together the flour and butter until crumble like.
  2. Mix in icing sugar, salt, and egg.
  3. Don’t over mix, rest in the fridge for 1 hour.
  4. Oil or butter your dish
  5. Line a tray. Or muffin tray with pastry
  6. Fill with apple and blackberry mix.
  7. Top the pie with more pastry
  8. Egg wash the top of the pastry, and cook in the oven 180degrees for 28 mins, until pastry is golden.
  9. Let cool and serve with fresh cream Or custard.

Mary Burns’s Butterific Irish Scones

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Our Raspberry Crumb Squares are ideal comfort baking and perfect for getting the kids involved too @KerrygoldIRL

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 180c fan and line a 23cm x 23cm x 5cm square tin with baking parchment.
  2. Combine the flour, oats, brown sugar and salt in a bowl. Rub in the butter using your hands to form a crumbly mixture. Press 2/3 of the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan, pressing down firmly.
  3. Bake for 10 minutes then remove from the oven. Spread the jam to within a ½ cm of the edge and scatter over the fresh raspberries. Sprinkle the remaining crumb mixture over the top and bake for 35-40 minutes until lightly browned.
  4. Once cooked, allow to cool before cutting into squares.
  5. Enjoy!