Apple duff.
I have been looking for a recipe that is so typically seems to be eluding me. I was looking for an Irish
desert but what I found was this. Apple
duff seem to have some connection with James Joyce “Ulysses” sadly a book I
have never read. I do have a idea about what the book is about and I know that
it covers the day in a life of a man, Leopold Bloom through Dublin
You will need
4 dessert apples
50g soft brown sugar
50g sultanas
50g soft brown sugar
50g sultanas
Dash of lemon juice.
A good pinch of cinnamon
A good pinch of cinnamon
A good pinch of nutmeg
350g approx puff pastry
350g approx puff pastry
One egg
Pinch of Demerara sugar
300ml double cream
Now I have read a number of recipes and some say you just
sit the apple on the pastry and let it cook the others say rap it in the pasty.
I am going to go for it being rapped in pastry so for this you will need to peal
and core your apples but leave them whole.
Take the apple and roll it in the lemon juice and then the
brown sugar so it gets a good coating.
Now take your sultanas cinnamon and nutmeg and mix this in a bowl along
with a little of the brown sugar. Then stuff the centre of the apples.
Divide the pastry in to four and roll so you have a sheet
for each apple, egg wash the edges of the pastry. Then bring the pastry up and round the apple
leaving a little hole at the top for the steam to escape. Then egg wash the
outside of the pastry and sprinkle a little Demerara sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg
on the out side of the pastry. Then place on a try and let them sit in the
fridge for about 10 to 20 minutes before you cook them
Preheat the oven to 200c/400f and then bake for 30 to 40
minutes until the pastry is nice and golden.
Finally serve with lightly whipped double cream.
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