# Dorset apple cake

Recipe yields 6 servings 

### Ingredients
 * 8 ounces plain flour
 * 2 teaspoons baking powder
 * 0.5 teaspoons ground nutmeg
 * 0.5 teaspoons ground cinnamon
 * salt
 * 4 ounces butter
 * 4 ounces caster sugar
 * 8 ounces apples, peeled and diced
 * 1 pieces egg
 * 2 tablespoons milk

### Directions

Pre-heat oven to 180C.  Grease and line a 20cm square cake tin.

Sift flour, spices and baking powder into a bowl and add pinch of salt.  Rub in buter.

Stir in sugar and diced apples.

Beat egg with milk then stir into dry ingredients to form a stiff dough.

Fill the cake tin (it should be quite shallow).

Bake for 45-60 minutes in the pre-heated oven; test with a skewer to check.

Leave to cool in the tin.



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