Apple Dappy

Thursday 16 September 2010

Apple Dappy  

Bramley Cooking Apples have to be one of the most versatile fruits in the English Kitchen. Grown in the UK specifically for cooking. 


They retain their apple flavour throughout the cooking process and produce a light, airy, moist texture, with a 'melt in the mouth' consistency. 

They also count towards your "Five a Day!" I think next year we will be planting a Bramley Apple tree or two if we can, coz they surely are a favourite ingredient of mine! 


  Apple Dappy

 

Just perfect for traditional apple puddings like this lovely one, Apple Dappy.

 

Apple Dappy is a delicious dessert which hails from the West Country . . . the counties of Dorset, Sommerset, Devon and Cornwall. Apple growing counties where lots of apples are grown for cider, eating and cooking.


 

Apple Dappy

 

It's an old recipe having originated in Victorian times, so I can well imagine this having been a popular dish during Larkrise to Candleford times. 

 

 Apple Dappy


 

It's a simple enough recipe that even Minnie could make. Minnie is Dorcas' hopeless young housemaid.

 

Lazy, dreamy and utterly unreliable, Minnie seems to cause havoc wherever she goes. But she is also loveable and has a desperate need to belong. I just love Minnie!

 

Apple Dappy

 

This recipe consists of a beautiful rich buttery scone type of dough, spread with lovely tart cooking apples (Bramleys being my choice), sprinkled with some demerara sugar and spice, then rolled up and cut into slices.

 

The slices are then placed into a buttered dish and a buttery lemony sweet sauce is poured over top before the whole thing is placed into the oven and baked until it is all puffed up and golden brown . . .

 

Apple Dappy

 

The pastry all buttery and crisp on top and lemony sweet on the bottom and filled to the brim with lovely meltingly tart and tender bits of bramley apple . . . 

 

 Apple Dappy

 

Spooned out hot into a bowl and covered with lashings of warm custard or dollops of clotted cream, this is a dessert fit for Kings and Queens, but simple enough to have easily have fit into the simple man's diet.

 

Traditional, simple and oh so very delicious. I hope you'll give it a try!!

 

Apple Dappy

 


Apple Dappy

Apple Dappy

Yield: 4 - 6
Author: Marie Rayner
Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 35 MinTotal time: 50 Min
A traditional Victorian Pudding from the West country, where apples grow in abundance!

Ingredients

For the pudding:
  • 225g of self raising flour (scant 2 cups)
  • 1 level teaspoon of baking powder
  • 2 ounces butter, cut into bits (1/4 cup)
  • 150ml of milk (scant 2/3 cup)
  • 1 pound of cooking apples
  • 1 TBS Demerara sugar (turbinado sugar)
  • 1/8 tsp of ground cinnamon or allspice
For the Syrup:
  • 1 large unwaxed lemon
  • 1 TBS golden syrup (could use honey)
  • a knob of butter
  • 4 ounces caster sugar (1/2 cup superfine)
  • 200ml of water (7 fluid ounces)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 190*C/375*F/ gas mark 5. Butter a two pint baking dish and set aside. (4 cup)
  2. First make the lemon syrup. Peel the lemon as thinly as possible. Place the peel in a saucepan along with all of the juice from the lemon. Add the syrup, butter, sugar and water. Bring to a simmer, stirring until the sugar is dissolved. Set aside.
  3. Sift the flour into a bowl along with the baking powder. Drop in the bits of butter. Rub the butter in with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the milk, stirring it in with a fork. Tip the dough out onto a floured board. Turn to coat in flour and then pat it out to an 8 inch square.
  4. Peel and chop the apples, discarding any peel and the cores. Spread the apples over the square of pastry. Sprinkle evenly with the sugar and cinnamon/allspice. Roll up like a swiss roll. Cut into 1 inch thick slices with a sharp knife and place cut side down in the prepared baking dish.
  5. Strain the syrup mixture and then pour it over top of the slices.
  6. Bake in the heated oven for 30 to 35 minutes until puffed up and golden brown. Serve hot with some warm custard or clotted cream. Delicious!
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16 comments

  1. I have never heard of dappy before, a new one on me! This looks divine - apple puddings and custard are my favourite! Lucie xx

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  2. Well, dappy is a new word for me but this looks amazing! I'll be trying this TODAY!
    xoxo Pattie

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  3. I'd never heard of those before but they look GOOD Marie!

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  4. yummy, i love making this... we were given a bramley apple tree for christmas two years ago, we had three apples this year and i made some apple sauce for a raost pork sunday dinner, fabulous, we have one apple still hanging on to the little tree :) i will be trying this too, i will have to buy some more apples tho !! xx

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  5. We picked a ton of cooking apples off the tree at our family country lodge this weekend. This Apple Dappy looks delish and perfect to use up some of my apples!

    Maria
    x

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  6. Mmmmm, Marie, sounds (and looks!) heavenly.

    I wonder if they sell Bramley apple trees here in the States? I've never heard of them. Are they good "after-school snack" apples, too, or best used in cooking?

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  7. Oh, that looks sooo yummt & comforting a sweet of autumn... perfect of apple time now! Oh, I love Minnie from Candleford too... she is a wonder! And so are you, dear Marie... LOVE YOU LOTS ((BIG HUGS))

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  8. Marie, this is my kind of dessert! I know Peter and my family would love it too.
    I just LOVE Larkrise to Candleford and can't wait for the next series, I think Minnie has to be my favourite, Rhiannon's little Sofia sounds just like her when she speaks!

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  9. saw you on OCTOBERFARMS sidebar and came by for a visit...and am i glad i did....

    i come here and find this apple dappy...never have heard of it either..and it looks wonderful...i am going to try this here at home...

    so happy to find you...
    kary from california

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  10. Oh. My. Goodness!!!!!!!!! Yumo - I want a big bowl with custard for dessert (not had dinner yet mind!)
    Will be buying some bramley's just so I can make this at the weekend.

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  11. Oh, gracious! I think Apple Dappy is my new favorite dessert, Marie...and I've never even tasted it! What a beautiful, comfort-laden treat! I love apples, and this sounds like perfection! Plus, I don't think I'm going to get the name "Apple Dappy" out of my head...will probably be saying it out loud all day!

    Love "Larkrise"...in fact, you're the one that introduced me!

    I hope you're having a lovely day, dear friend...Huge hugs and lots of love being sent to you immediately!

    Julie

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  12. Yummy! I guess I will have to fire up the oven this weekend (temps here are still in the 90s so I try to avoid the oven).

    Love Larkrise to Candleford, I am currently waiting for season 3 on DVD. I am sure Dorcas would count Apple Dappy as her only weakness.

    Thanks for the recipes, always love checking your blog.

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  13. Perfect timing Marie. I just got two carrier bags of apples from my neighbour!

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  14. This looks lovely.. reminds me a lot of a dessert I called birds nest pudding..It consists of whole apples stuffed with brownsugar and surrounded by a thin pastry that bakesin strips and resembles a bird nest...It's served with heavy cream seasoned with nutmeg and poured over it....

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  15. Hi - writing here from Devon England - I can confirm this is what I think of as apple dappy. A lot of the recipes on UK sites for some reason don't include the lemon sauce, which I think is essential. Bramleys are great if you have them but tbh you can use any apple you have. Eaters will hold their shape better.

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