225g flour
175g butter
120g castor sugar
1 egg yolk
Salt
Filling:
4 cooked apples
60g sugar
1/2 tspn cinnamon
60g currants
Some drops of lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
Filling method:
Melt the sugar in 1/2 cup water.
Put in the peeled and cut apples, currants.
Heat, then take off stove.
N.B. The apples are NOT to be cooked to pulp.
Put in cinnamon and lemon juice.
Put aside to cool.
Pastry method:
Cream butter and sugar, salt, egg yolk.
Add the flour.
Place half the mixture in a greased cake tin (about half cm thick).
Roll out left-over mixture and cut in strips for side of cake tin.
Pour in the filling and put the left-over strips cross-wise over the apple filling.
Brush with beaten egg yolk and water, and decorate with glace cherries.
Bake in moderate oven for 45 minutes.