Country Women'S Association Irish Apple Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

250 g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
125 g sugar
125 g butter
3 -4 cooking apples, peeled cored and roughly chopped
1 egg, beaten
1/3 cup milk

Preparation

Preheat oven to 180\u00b0C.
Grease a 20cm round cake tin.
Sift together the flour, baking powder and the sugar.
Cut in the butter roughly with a knife (do not rub it in).
Add the apples.
Stir in the egg and milk to make a fairly stiff mixture. The batter will appear fairly lumpy.
Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin.
Bake for about 1 hour.
Serve hot with custard or ice-cream.
This cake can be cooked ahead and reheated in the microwave as needed.