SALISBURY SENIORS | ISSUE 21
WORD FROM JACK’S CAFÉ
GOOD OLD APPLE PIE
Method Jack’s Café has been busy offering a varied menu, 1. Peel, core and slice apples, place in pot, cover with water and add vanilla. making changes to adhere to the new single use 2. Place lid on pot and cook on medium to high plastics legislation and connecting members to heat until the apples start to soften then turn build friendships through seating placements. the heat off and drain the liquid. A visit from Maggie Beer AM resonated with Michelle (While the apples are cooking you can start the Kohler, chef, who agrees that ‘fresh is always the pastry) way to go when considering meals’. Thanks to 3. Mix the dry ingredients together and rub through Shannan and the Paralowie Communal Garden butter. It should look like fine bread crumbs. members and volunteers, the Café has received an Slowly add water and stir/kneed until it comes abundance of apples to cook an old favourite - the together as dough. Wrap in cling wrap and apple pie! refrigerate for 30 minutes. 4. Pre-heat oven to 180 degree Celsius or 160 INGREDIENTS degrees if oven is fan-forced. Lightly beat the egg and put aside. 12 Granny Smith apples Pastry Ingredients 5. Remove pastry from fridge and divide into two Water (enough to cover 1½ cups SR flour balls of the same size. Place a ball of dough the apples) 1 cup plain flour between two sheets of baking paper and roll out to the size of the baking dish. Repeat with 1 cup icing sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla second ball. 100g butter 1 Egg 6. Lay one pastry in the dish and add apples. Lay 1 teaspoon salt the second pastry over the top and brush with Raw sugar (to sprinkle Enough water to make the beaten egg. Sprinkle a little raw sugar on over the pie) the dough - around 1½ the top for crispness. cups 7. Bake in the oven for about ½ hr or until pastry is golden. Optional: ice-cream or custard 8. Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or warm custard and enjoy! www.salisburyseniors.sa.gov.au/seniors
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