The ideal English cooking apple. Bramley apples can grow to 100mm + (4 inches) in diameter. They are used in many recipes such as stews, curries, apple cake, apple pie and the old family favourite apple crumble, or just simply baked with sultanas and brown sugar delicious! They can also be sliced, blanched then frozen, to be used at a later date.
The trees that are available for sponsorship were planted in 1974 and can be easily picked from the ground. You could expect to harvest, in a good growing year, approximately 50kg (110lbs) of fruit from one sponsored tree.
Bramley Apple Cake
Ingredients:
8 oz Bramley Cooking Apples (peeled and chopped)
8 oz Self Raising Flour
4 oz Margarine
4 oz Caster Sugar or Demerara Sugar
3 oz Sultanas
2 Eggs
1 Lemon (juice from one lemon and rind grated)
1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
Pinch of salt
Directions
- Sieve the flour and cinnamon into a large bowl
- Add the margarine and mix well with your fingers
- Add the caster sugar, chopped Bramley apples, sultanas, juice and rind of the lemon.
- Mix with a wooden spoon
- Now add the eggs and turn not beat.
- Place in greased loaf tin
- Bake in a pre heated oven
- 350 farenheight or 180 degrees Celsius or 150 degrees Celsius (Fan Assisted Oven)
- For 40 minutes
- Check after 30 minutes and turn down it too brown.
- Wait for it to cool then test the fruits of your labour.
- Delicious with a cup of tea or Horlands Farm Apple Juice!
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