“My mother, known in Aarschot as Milia, liked to help out when neighbours, acquaintances or relatives called on her cooking skills. For instance, I remember that Mia Van Kerckhoven would secretly come to our house to pick up a little bowl of soup. My mum passed it through the kitchen window, as in a chip shop. It was then served with success to guests who were delighted with Mia’s cooking… For years Milia gladly took care of the meals at the summer camps in Austria for the Aarschot Youth Choir under the direction of Rev. Frans Breughelmans.” – Christine Sas
ingredients apple pie Emily
100 g flour
250 g self-raising flour
150 g butter
200 g sugar
4 eggs
1/2 kg apples
Sift the two kinds of flour together into a bowl.
Melt the butter over a low heat.
Make a well in the flour and slowly add, using a mixer (beaters), the sugar and egg yolks until a firm, homogeneous mixture forms.
Tip: add a very small splash of milk.
Beat the egg white until stiff and fold it through the dough alternately with a spatula until you have a light mixture.
Grease a cake tin and fill it partly with the dough.
Spread the apple slices with cinnamon over the dough and cover with the remaining dough.
45 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.
