Eve'S Pudding - cooking recipe

Ingredients

400 g cooking apples
1 grated lemon, juice and rind of
75 g demerara sugar
15 ml water
fat, for greasing
75 g butter or 75 g margarine
75 g caster sugar
1 egg
100 g self-raising flour

Preparation

Peel, core and slice the apples thinly. Mix together with the lemon rind and juice, sugar and water and put into a greased 1 litre pie dish.
Cream the fat and caster sugar together until light and fluffy.
Beat the egg until liquid and beat into the creamed mixture.
Fold in the flour lightly and spread the mixture over the apples.
Bake in a moderate oven at 180C, gas mark 4 for 40 - 45 minutes until the apples are soft and the sponge is firm.
Serve with pouring custard or melted apple jelly and single cream.