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Discover the wonders of apples! Common Ground initiated Apple Day on October 21st 1990 in Covent Garden and launched it countrywide with over 50 events in 1991. These ranged from markets in village halls to menus in National Trust houses, pruning and grafting classes, apple roadshows by horticultural societies and apple food and drink in the Houses of Parliament. By 2000 Apple Day was celebrated in more than 600 events around the country and abroad. Visit www.commonground.org.uk for details of this year’s Apple Day events across the country
Apple Strudel
by EVOLVE!
Ingredients:
450g cooking apples
50g margarine
2 tablespoons bread crumbs
3 tablespoons raisins
1 tablespoon light brown muscovado sugar (or to taste)
2 teaspoons mixed spice
1 tablespoon chopped almonds
Juice from half a lemon
4 sheets filo pastry (ready-made, frozen)
Method:
Thaw out the filo pastry. Keep cold and covered with a damp cloth or cling film.
Wash, core and cut the apples into very thin slices.
Take a little of the margarine and melt in a pan. Brown the bread crumbs and mix with the apple slices, raisins, almonds, sugar and mixed spice. Moisten the mixture with the lemon juice.
Melt the rest of the margarine.
Lay the first sheet of filo pastry on a clean tea towel and brush with melted margarine. Lay on the next sheet and brush and so on until the end.
Cover the pastry with the apple mixture. Fold the outer sides of the pastry in a little. Lift the corner of the cloth, ease your fingers under the sheets of filo and roll up so that the mixture is totally encased.
Form into a crescent shape. Slide the strudel off the tea towel and onto an oiled baking sheet. Brush the top with the remainder of the melted margarine.
Bake for 20 minutes at gas mark 7/ 230C/ 450 F and then reduce the oven to Gas Mark 4/ 180C/ 350F, and bake for a further 20 minutes.
Serve with soya cream, soya custard or dairy-free ice-cream
