Plum & apple cobbler

• cooking apples↗750g g

  (Bramley's are best)

• ripe plums↗350g g
• lemon↗juice of 1

  juice of 1

• golden caster sugar↗100g g
• self-raising flour↗100g g
• cinnamon↗1 tsp tsp
• butter↗50g g
• golden caster sugar↗50g g
• egg↗1

  beaten

• milk↗4 tbsp tbsp
• walnut↗50g/2oz g

  pieces

Step-by-step instructions

1. 1

   Preheat the oven to fan 160C/ conventional180C/gas 4. Butter a 1.5 litre ovenproof pie dish.

2. 2

   Peel, core and slice the apples. Halve, stone and quarter the plums. Put the apples in a pan with the lemon juice, sugar and 1 tbsp water. Bring to the boil, then cover and cook gently for 5 minutes. Add the plums and cook for a further 5 minutes.

3. 3

   Turn the fruit into the prepared dish. Tip the flour and cinnamon into a bowl, add the butter, cut into small pieces and rub in with your fingertips. Stir in the sugar, then add the egg and milk and mix lightly to a soft batter (this can be done in the food processor).

4. 4

   Drop tablespoonsful of the batter over the fruit, leaving gaps where the fruit peers through, then scatter over the nuts. Bake for 25-30 minutes until the topping has a crisp brown crust.