This week Nana Margaret ( Margaret McSweeney), made a delicious apple pie with her grand daughter Romaine.

As this episode was all about “ Harvest”, we decided to cook something using fruit that is harvested in autumn, so apple pie it was!

Margaret made pastry making look so easy and the encouraging and lovely way she involved Romaine was an inspiration to those of us who cringe when our kids say “ Can I help?”.

What you need:

• 3 cups of flour
• 200 grams of butter
• 10 granny smith apples
• About a half a cup of water
• One egg
• Half a teaspoon of salt
• Half a teaspoon of cinnamon
• Half a teaspoon of nutmeg
• One lemon
• 3 tablespoons of raw sugar
• 1 teaspoon of caster sugar

HOW TO:

Step 1

Peel and chop up the apples very fine as they are going into the pastry raw and if they are too thick they will stay cruchy

Step 2

Mix the apples with the juice of 1 lemon, the spices and the 3 tablespoons of sugar.

Step 3

Making the pastry

Sift three cups of flour

Add half a teaspoon of salt

Rub in 200 grams of grated butter

Make a little well in the middle and pour in half a cup of water

Gently mix the flour and water until they come together into a dough

Knead mixture on floured baking paper

Divide in half

Roll out first half

Grease pie dish

Flip pastry over into dish, gently pressing into the sides, trim.

Step 4

Pour apple mixture into pie dish.

Step 5

Baste edges with whisked egg

Step 6

Roll out other half of pastry and flip that onto top

Step 7

Baste all over with egg

Step 8

Bake in the oven at 180 degrees celsius for 40 minutes

Serve warm with cream or ice cream and a cup of tea!