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Apple and Pear Pie with Fruit Sauce

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Ingredients

For the pastry

  • 375 g strong white flour
  • 250 g caster sugar
  • 125 g butter softened
  • 1 medium egg
  • 30 mlwater

For the filling

  • 8 apples peeled, cored and chopped
  • 8 pears peeled, cored and chopped
  • 40 gsugar

For the topping

  • 1 egg beaten, for eggwash
  • caster sugar for sprinkling

For the sauce

  • 2 punnets raspberries
  • icing sugar

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6.
  • To make the pastry, using a beater on an electric mixer, blend all the ingredients together to make a smooth pastry.
  • To make the filling, put the fruit and sugar into a pan and cook over a med To make the filling, put the fruit and sugar into a pan and cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes to soften the fruit.
  • Roll the pastry out onto a 30. 5 cm/ 12 inch pie plate and spoon on the filling.
  • Roll out the excess pastry to make the lid and place on top.
  • Trim the pastry edges and crimp around the edge, brush with eggwash and sprinkle with sugar.
  • Bake for 25 minutes until golden brown.
  • Meanwhile make the raspberry sauce.
  • Pass the raspberries through a sieve then stir in a little icing sugar.
  • Serve with the pie.
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Course Fruit / Pie