A recipe

If you're on Facebook then you'll know that the lovely Hannah has oodles of lemons that she's been busy using. I have a delicious Lemony Apple Pie recipe, but as I don't have Hannah's email, I'm sharing it on here. Maybe some of you also might like it. It's very easy and oh so yummy.

Lemony Apple Pie

For the pastry
1 cup of flour
A third of a cup of self raising flour
150grams of butter, cold
2 egg yolks
3-4 tablespoons of cold water


For the filling

2 eggs
Grated rind and juice of one lemon
1 cup of sugar
2 tablespoons of melted butter
3 large Braeburn or Granny Smith apples, grated (no need to peel)
Icing sugar to dust

To make the pastry, place the flours and butter into a food processor and run the machine until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the egg yolks, just pulsing machine to combine. Dribble in the water until the mixture clumps together in a ball. Gather the dough and press into a flat shape and then wrap in cling film and chill in the fridge for thirty minutes or longer.

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Spray a fluted pie dish with baking spray (I just used butter wiped around). Roll the pastry out on a lightly floured surface and line the pie dish. Place this back in the fridge while you prepare the other ingredients.

To make the filling, combine the eggs, lemon rind and juice, sugar and melted butter. Pour into the chilled pastry shell. Cover with grated apple and bake for ten minutes and then reduce the temperature to 160 degrees Celsius, and bake for a further 40-45 minutes until golden brown and the pastry is just pulling away from the edges. Serve warm dusted with icing sugar (I don’t worry about the icing sugar as its pretty sweet!)