Grandma's Apple Pie

All of a sudden this morning I developed a craving for apple pie. But not just any apple pie. I wanted a specific apple pie that my grandma used to bake on occasion. I found her recipe folder and started paging through the myriad of cutouts, scribbles, tear-outs and side notes, before finally stumbling across the fading handwritten recipe that I was looking for. I show you how to bake this nostalgic recipe from my gran's folder in today's blog.

This is the recipe I found in my gran's folder. It attributes the recipe to a 'Tannie Els', someone I did not know.

Cream 1 cup (250 ml) sugar and 2 tablespoons (25 ml) butter/margarine.

Beat 3 eggs into this.

Add 1 1/4 cup (310 ml) cake flour, a teaspoon baking powder (5 ml) and a pinch (2 ml) salt to the mixture.

Mix well.

In a separate bowl, mix 1 cup brown sugar and a tablespoon (12,5 ml) cinnamon.

Prepare a baking dish with nonstick spray.

Coat the bottom of the baking dish with the sugar and cinnamon.

Drain a a large tin of apple slices and spread the apples evenly over the sugared dish.

Spread the dough evenly over the apples and bake at 200 °C for roughly 20 minutes.

In the meantime, empty a small can of evaporated milk (I used 3/4 of a large tin) and 1 cup (250 ml) sugar into a pot.

Bring to the boil and turn down the heat. Continue to stir for roughly 10 minutes over a low heat.

Remove the pie from the oven when done.

Pour the sweetened Ideal Milk over the warm pie.

The pie will absorb most of the liquid.

I like to prepare a thin custard with my apple pie, but you may prefer some whipped cream.

Serve hot. As a dessert, it is especially good with ice cream.

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