Stanhill Farm News!
One of our staff members, Tom, made a wonderful pudding this week called Apple Crunch. Passed to him by his Nana, this delicious creation was devoured by the rest of the Stanhill Farm staff in a matter of minutes! You can find the recipe here:
Nana’s Apple Crunch
Ingredients:
3 large Bramley cooking apples
100g butter (Unsalted)
100g Brown sugar/ Demerara Sugar
75g Caster sugar
½ tsp Ground cinnamon
4 large slices of bread
Brown sugar/Demerara sugar for dusting
Method:
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Preheat the oven 200⁰C/180⁰C fan.
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Wash, peel, core and thinly slice the apples.
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Place the apples in a saucepan with 2tbsp water and 75g caster sugar.
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Put lid on pan and cook gently until just soft.
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Add the apple to a deep oven proof dish, roughly 3” deep by 8” wide by 8” long.
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Remove bread crusts and cut remaining into 1cm cubes.
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Melt 75g butter, 75g brown sugar in a pan over a gentle heat.
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Add ¼ tsp cinnamon and the bread then stir until bread is coated.
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Place bread on top of the apple, dust with just a little brown sugar and cinnamon.
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Cook in the oven for 25-30 minutes until golden brown and crisp.
Serve hot with custard or ice cream.
Tom’s Top Tip: Leave the bread out for a day or so, so that it goes slightly stale, you’ll find it soaks up the butter better and gives it a richer flavour and a better crunch!
Juicing
Juicing continues to be very popular, as it offers many life enhancing health benefits and enables a faster, more efficient way to absorb immune boosting nutrients naturally found in fruit and vegetables. Kale has numerous nutritional benefits, so it's no wonder that it usually features in most juicing recipes. High in fibre, it's great for aiding in digestion and contains vitamins K, A and C, as well as useful amounts of manganese, copper and phytochemicals, which are believed to help against certain types of cancer. The following recipe is a great kale juice cleanse with just the right mix of produce, and with the ginger adding a light spice to it.
Recipe
5 cups chopped kale
2 cups chopped celery
4 cups chopped apple
1 & 1/2 squares of ginger
This yields approximately 23 ounces of juice.