Has anyone a recipe for vegetarian sage derby cheese and apple pie?
I once had a recipe for a delicious pie made with cooking apples, sage derby cheese and walnuts. This was topped with a flaky pastry and when cooked served as a main course. It was excellent, but I have lost the recipe and don’t know if I am missing ingredients or know the proportions of quantites. Anyone come across the recipe or similar?
May 21st, 2010 at 4:58 am
Sage in an apple pie? I can’t imagine.
May 21st, 2010 at 5:02 am
Apple & Lancashire Cheese Pie
A deep dish apple pie with cinnamon, maple syrup and sultanas, tossed with crumbled Lancashire cheese.
350g (12oz) short crust pastry
900g (2lb) cooking apples, peeled cored and cut into chunks
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
75g (3oz) sultanas
5 tablespoons maple syrup
150g (5oz) Lancashire cheese, crumbled
beaten egg to glaze
Preheat the oven to 400F/200C/Gas mark 6. Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface and use to line a deep 20cm (8in) pie dish or loose bottomed fluted flan case. Prick the bottom and chill whilst preparing the filling. Reserve pastry trimmings for the top of the pie.
Place the apples, cinnamon, sultanas and maple syrup in a pan. Cover and
cook over a gentle heat until apples just begin to soften. Remove from the heat and fold in the crumbled Lancashire cheese.
Spoon into pastry lined dish. Re roll the pastry trimmings and cut into strips about 1cm (1/2in) thick. Use these to form a lattice pattern on top of the pie and brush with beaten egg to glaze.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes until pastry is golden and crisp.