Xiao Er Pai (Apple Pastry Bake)
Peel and core apples or crabapples, cut into chunks and pile in a bowl, add syrup, sugar and dry flour, cover with a pastry sheet and bake.
Story
This traditional Chinese pastry bake layers tart-sweet apple or crabapple chunks beneath a golden pastry crust, sweetened with syrup and sugar and bound with a light dusting of dry flour. Baked until bubbling beneath its tender lid, it is a humble, comforting dessert rooted in classical Chinese baking tradition.
Ingredients
Apple or Chinese crabapple (peeled, cored, cut into four pieces)
to taste
Syrup
1 cup
Sugar
3 tablespoons
Dried noodles (sprinkled on top)
to taste
Dough wrapper (to cover)
to taste
Instructions
1
Step 1
Use a deep baking dish; peel and core the apples or crabapples, cut into four pieces, and arrange them in the dish.
2
Step 2
Add one cup of syrup, three tablespoons of sugar, sprinkle with dry flour, then cover with a pastry crust.
3
Step 3
Bake for one and a half hours.
