Sunday 1 December 2013

Apple pie.

Apple pie.
Ingredients:
Flour - 180 g
Sugar (approximately) - 250 g
Butter (at room temperature) - 120 g
Egg - 2 pcs
Apple - 600-800 g
Rum (or cognac, brandy, whiskey, vodka) - 5 tbsp. liter.
Vanilla sugar - 1 package.
Raisins - 2 tbsp. liter.
Baking powder - 1 tsp.

First of all you need to cook the stuffing.
Apple peel, cut into thin slices and add together in a saucepan. Add 2 tablespoons raisins, 4 tablespoons 5 tablespoons of sugar and rum (or brandy, vodka, whiskey, in general, any strong drink, who are found in the house). I loved soaking in the Belarusian balm, Riga balsam.
You can add a good pinch of cinnamon.
Pan cover with a lid and leave for a few hours, or better the next day.
Periodically apples should be mixed to better soaked.
(If you do not have time to wait, cake here and want immediately, you can warm up the pan with apples almost to a boil and let cool, soaked faster.)

The basis of the cake:
Sift flour and mix with baking powder. Add 90g. butter, 60g. sugar sachet of vanilla sugar and mix gently until the crumbs hands.

Pour the resulting crumbs into a greased form (I additional bed on the bottom of baking paper and sprinkle with breadcrumbs wall).

Put the stuffing on top, sprinkle with sugar and put in a preheated 200 degree oven for about half an hour.

Meanwhile, prepare the fill.
To do this, beat 2 eggs and 40g. sugar, then add 30g. butter and whisk well again.
Fill the pie with the mixture and send it in the oven for another ten minutes.
Ready cake still hot pour alcohol. I used for this purpose, the remainder of the apple syrup, adding a little brandy.

Remove from the mold, cut and try to better cooled down.
Here is the option we poured pouring cake, where the oil is replaced cream. Also good, but not browning, and reminds type cake Tsvetaeva. Sometimes forget about raisins, again, with raisins I like more.

Frampton.

A quirky village with many attractive cottages located on one side of the street and yet nothing on the other, making it appear quite lop sided! Another odd feature of the village is the church of St. Mary with its tower corners consisting of two huge columns, one on top of the other with pinnacles above. Inside the church are rich monuments and memorials. Historically, Frampton was an ancient British settlement and some Roman tessellated pavements incorporating one of the oldest Christian symbols to be found in the country were discovered 150 yrs ago.
The Frampton Trail, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is a 1 kilometer long circular walk which gives you the chance to discover Frampton's past and to explore how it has changed through the years.