
Main Ingredients:
One medium cooking apple
8 oz (250g or two cups) self raising flour (all-purpose flour with
baking powder)
½ teaspoon salt
Level teaspoon baking powder
2 oz (60g or ½ stick) butter
2 oz (60g or ¼ cup) castor (fine granulated) sugar
Up to ¼ pint (150ml or half cup) milk
Ingredients for glaze:
A little milk
1oz demerara (light brown) sugar
Method:
Pre-heat the oven to 200C (400F or Gas Mark 6).
Peel and core the apple and then finely chop. Sift together the flour,
salt and baking powder. Then rub in the butter followed by the sugar and
chopped apple and mix. Add milk until you have a soft but not sticky
dough.
Roll out on a floured surface to about ¼" thick and 8" round and mark
into 8 wedges. Place on a greased baking sheet, brush the top with milk
and sprinkle with the demerara (light brown) sugar. Bake in the
pre-heated oven at 200C (400F or Gas Mark 6) for 20-25 minutes. Serve
warm with butter.