Regular readers will know that this fruity combination is one of my favourites.
A new twist that I tried out last night!
Ingredients per person:
One Bramley apple, or other baking variety
Small handful of ripe blakberries
2 teaspoonsful of sugar (more if fruit unripe)
2 tablespoonsful of red wine
Method:
Core the apple and make a cut in the skin around its 'equator'. Put it into an ovenproof bowl or dish that allows about 1-2cms all around. Stuff the cavity with as many berries as you can cram in, and scatter the rest round the apple. Pour over the wine, then sprinkle on the sugar. Bake in a medium oven (gas mark 3, 160° C) for 30 mins or until the apple fluffs and starts to collapse.
Serve with custard, cream, vanilla ice cream - or, as I did, just spoon it down as it is. Mmmmmmmmm.
(Folklore has it that we should no longer be picking blackberries, as the Devil spits on them at Michaelmas. However, my theory is that this is an old wives' tale invented to explain the fact that the berries get pippy and dry - or just flyblown and mushy, at the end of the season. This unusual growing season means that there are still fine juicy berries for the picking, over a week after the alleged incident of hellish expectoration.)
08/10/07 @ 18:35