This recipe has been handed down from my mother. Apples and
ginger with a hint of golden syrup, it certainly is a
combination hard to resist!
Apple gingerbread
Serves 8-12
Photo by Linda Roberston.
Ingredients
250g cooking apples, peeled, cored and sliced thinly
2-4 Tbsp sugar, or to taste
90g raw cane sugar
115g or ⅓ cup golden syrup
90g butter
200g self-raising flour
1 tsp ground ginger
¼ tsp ground cloves
1 eggs
Method
Heat oven to 180degC.
Grease and line a 20cm square tin.
Cook the apples in a little water and sugar. Stew gently
until tender, then mash and cool.
In a separate pan gently melt the butter, syrup and raw cane
sugar together until dissolved. Leave to cool.
Sift the flour, ginger and cloves into a bowl and make a well
in the centre. Add the egg to the syrup mixture and beat into
the flour.
Stir in the mashed apples and continue to beat until just
combined.
Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 25-30 minutes or
until firm.
Leave to stand in the tin for five minutes before turning out
to cool on a wire rack; cut into slices.
• Alison Lambert, chef at the Otago Farmers Market, will
be demonstrating this recipe at the market on Saturday
morning.
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