APPLE OAT CRISP

Sugar & spiced apples cook under a crunchy, crispy topping.
Serves 6

1 cup plain flour
3/4 cup each of rolled oats & firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
125g butter, cut into bits and softened
1/2 cup flaked almonds
6 large cooking apples, peeled & thinly sliced
3 Tab each of sultanas & sugar (or less)
2 Tab fresh lemon juice
1 tsp cinnamon

Stir the first 4 ingredients together well  Add butter: blend until it resembles coarse meal, then stir in almonds.

In a large bowl toss the apples & sultanas with the juice, sugar & cinnamon and transfer mixture to a buttered, 6-cup deepish pie plate.

Crumble topping evenly over the apple mixture and bake in centre shelf of a preheated 190 degree C oven for 25-30 mins, or until apples are cooked and the top is golden.
Let the Crisp stand 10 mins and serve it warm.

GINGER APPLE PIE

A spicy pastry

2 cups SR
1 cup caster sugar
1/2 tsp bicarb
1 tsp each of ginger, cinnamon & allspice
125g butter
1 egg, well beaten
stewed apples

Sift the drys, rub in the butter. Then mix in the egg.
Line a flan tin with half the pastry, add apples, then top with pastry.
Bake 45 mins at 180 degrees C.
Serve with whipped cream or ice-cream.