My name's Aoife, I live in Melbourne, Victoria.
I'm originally from Ireland
and I really miss my mum's apple tart.
With winter and having roast dinners,
I just feel it's finished off nicely with an apple tart
and I've never learned how to cook it.
So me and my kids zoomed with my mum last night
and she taught us how to make a pastry.
(chime rings) - Good morning, Australia.
How are you? - [Children] Hi!
- I'm just having my cup of tea and my brown bread.
- We're gonna make the pastry tonight,
and then we're going to make apple tart for breakfast.
(laughs) - [Children] Yay!
- Oh, yummy!
The golden rule for making shortcrust pastry is
half fat to flour
and enough water to mix to a stiff dough.
Rub it into the flour,
with the tips of your fingers, like this.
- [Aoife] Wait, did Mammy Moore make apple tarts?
- Oh, she did make apple tarts. It was the one thing
that everybody in Ireland loved, apple tarts.
I'd add a little bit more water,
just a tiny little bit more water.
Now, bring it into a ball.
- No, hands- no hands!
Okay, just fingertips. That's it! Now roll quick.
If you'd like to roll it into cling film,
leave it in the fridge overnight.
- Is this a leprechaun?
Ah!
- [Aoife] These are the ingredients.
We have some apples, Granny Smith
because we couldn't get cooking apples here in Australia.
We have some sugar.
We have some pastry, which we made last night.
- Nan, I don't know the difference between a pie and a tart.
- Call it what you like. You can call it a pie or a tart.
And do you know, sometimes some people
when they made apple tarts in Ireland, they used to
put cloves in them, but I wasn't that keen on-
- What are cloves? - They're cinnamon.
- Oh, I thought she meant clothes.
- Oh. (laughs) - She thought you said cl-
- Thought you said clothes!
- [Mammy McCann] You thought I said clothes?
(all laugh together)
- [Aoife] I always remember Nan making apple tart
when I was a little girl.
- Now, the big difference would be the apples,
because we always use cooking apples which are,
and they're very bitter. And you see,
when you add sugar to the cooking apples
they make a lovely syrupy, apples.
- So how much apple? I've done two big Granny Smiths.
Now remember this is a smaller tin.
- Yeah. Well, I mean, well it looks full enough.
I always liked to have lots of apples in it.
Some people put very few.
- I don't know if this is going to look
half as good as Nan's.
That looks all right, doesn't it?
- If you like to pinch it, go around and pinch it
or with a fork, whichever you like to do.
- [Aoife] So how much do you miss Nan?
- [Child 1] All around the solar system 65 trillion times.
- Nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine
million thousand trillion blue whales.
- That's only a fraction
of how much I miss you.
- [Aoife] I'm gonna put it in the oven for-
How long did Nan say?
- [Children] 30 minutes!
- Pretty happy!
Thank you Nan for teaching us how to...
- [Children] Thank you! For teaching us how to cook it!
- Tastes like a Sunday in Ireland.
- It's actually... - Or a Thursday in Australia.
- (chuckles) Yay!