Plum & apple cobbler
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook: -
- Ready in an hour
- Easy
- Serves 4
Ingredients
- 750g cooking apples (Bramley's are best)
- 350g ripe plums
- juice of 1 lemon
- 100g golden caster sugar
For the cobbler
- 100g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 50g butter
- 50g golden caster sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 4 tbsp milk
- 50g/2oz walnut pieces
Method
- STEP 1
Preheat the oven to fan 160C/ conventional180C/gas 4. Butter a 1.5 litre ovenproof pie dish.
- STEP 2
Peel, core and slice the apples. Halve, stone and quarter the plums. Put the apples in a pan with the lemon juice, sugar and 1 tbsp water. Bring to the boil, then cover and cook gently for 5 minutes. Add the plums and cook for a further 5 minutes.
- STEP 3
Turn the fruit into the prepared dish. Tip the flour and cinnamon into a bowl, add the butter, cut into small pieces and rub in with your fingertips. Stir in the sugar, then add the egg and milk and mix lightly to a soft batter (this can be done in the food processor).
- STEP 4
Drop tablespoonsful of the batter over the fruit, leaving gaps where the fruit peers through, then scatter over the nuts. Bake for 25-30 minutes until the topping has a crisp brown crust.
