Simple Blackberry And Apple Pie

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 6 ounces shortcrust pastry, ready made
• 6 large cooking apples
• 1 1/2 cups blackberries
• 4 ounces sugar
• milk, to glaze
• water

Recipe

• 1 peel apples, and cut into thick slices. place in saucepan, adding enough water to cover and add the sugar.
• 2 simmer for a few minutes until the apples are just cooked but still a bit firm in the centre. drain and set to one side to cool.
• 3 heat the oven to 220c.
• 4 roll out the pastry. place nearly all of the applies in a pie dish. scattering the blackberries evenly over the top sprinkle a dessert spoon of sugar over the berries , then place a layer of apple over that -- this is to stop the stain of the berries going through the pastry.
• 5 add the pastry and brush with a small amount of milk and drizzle a teaspoon or so of sugar over.
• 6 bake for about 30-35 minutes, until pastry is a light golden color.
• 7 note:.
• 8 i make this pie with minimum pastry and replace the sugar with splenda for my cousin who is diabetic.
• 9 serve hot or cold with either, light cream or ice cream.