Apple Sauce
Serves 4

Ingredients:

• 1 very large cooking apple, 400g, then 300g less peel etc.
• 75g (2.5oz) sugar
• 1 tbsp water

Procedure:

1. Peel, decore and chop the apple into large chunks.
2. Put into a small saucepan, add the sugar and water.
3. Cook on a very low heat for 8 minutes or until the apple is soft and pulpy.
4. Stir and taste.

Serve with Rachel Allen's Colcannon with Cabbage and also her Homemade Pork Sausages.

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About the Chef:

Rachel Allen was brought up in Dublin and her early cooking experiences were with her sister, both pretending to be Delia Smith and each talking to the wall as they made biscuits. Encouraged by her family Rachel went to the Ballymaloe Cookery School at the age of 18 and realized that she wanted to make food her career.

After graduating from the school she cooked at the renowned Ballymaloe House Hotel, eventually returning first to test recipes and then to teach at the school. She worked for a while as a caterer in Vancouver before returning again to teach at Ballymaloe. This is one of the premier cookery schools in Ireland and has an international reputation.

In September 2004 RTE, the national TV station for Southern Ireland, broadcast Rachel’s first series Rachel’s Favourite Food, which was screened on BBC 2 each Saturday morning, and has also been seen in Australia, Italy, Africa and elsewhere. Rachel’s Favourite Food (the book to accompany the series) was published by Gill & Macmillan. Rachel's follow up book and TV series were both called Rachel’s Favourite Food for Friends and were both huge successes. Her third series, Rachel's Favourite Food At Home, this time shown on BBC1, due to the excellent ratings was another smash and the accompanying book, Rachel's Favourite Food at Home (HarperCollins 2006) hit the top of the book charts. Rachel’s latest series, Rachel’s Favourite Food For Living, aired on BBC1, the accompanying book, Rachel’s Food For Living was again published by HarperCollins in 2007, as was a beautiful Rachel Allen Diary for 2008. Rachel is also a frequent guest on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen. Rachel has appeared on numerous programs this year including: Castle in the County, Market Kitchen and Cooking the Books on Channel 5.

Rachel has most recently appeared at Taste of the World for the New York Times as the special guest of the Irish Tourist Board.

Rachel lives near Ballymaloe with her two young sons and her husband, another cook, who runs two restaurants in Cork.

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More recipes from Chef Rachel Allen:

• Rachel Allen's Smoked Mackerel Pâté on Crostini
  
• Rachel Allen's Homemade Pork Sausages
  
• Rachel Allen's Colcannon with Cabbage