Plum and apple cobbler

Make hay while the sun shines. If you don’t have plums in your garden your neighbour or relative surely will. It’s been a great plum season and this is one of my favourite recipes to use up the ripe fruit. Enjoy with whipped cream or ice cream.

Ingredients:

• 750g cooking apples
• 350g ripe plums
• juice of 1 lemon
• 100g golden caster sugar

For the cobbler

• 100g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 50g butter
• 50g golden caster sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 4 tbsp milk
• 50g walnut pieces

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180C and grease an ovenproof pie dish

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.

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).

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.

Bake for 25-30 minutes until the topping has a crisp brown crust.