FREEFORM BLACKBERRY AND APPLE PIE

Ingredients......200gm of plain flour, 125gm of chilled butter/ marg, chopped, 1 egg lightly beaten, 110gm of castor sugar, 3 cooking apples, peeled, quartered and sliced, 300gm of fresh blackberries (2 x punnets), the finely grated zest of 1 lemon plus 1 tbs of lemon juice, 25gm of breadcrumbs. Preheat your oven to 200 deg C. Grease a baking tray. Place the flour and butter/ marg in a food processor and whiz until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the lightly beaten egg and 2 tbs of castor sugar, then whiz again until the mixture just forms a ball, enclose in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Now place the prepared apples in a bowl with the blackberries, lemon zest and juice, plus all the remaining sugar ( retaining 1 tsp of sugar ).Set the bowl with the fruit mix aside. Roll out the pastry on a sheet of lightly floured baking paper to a 30cm circle. Transfer the baking paper with the rolled dough circle onto the baking tray. Sprinkle the pastry with breadcrumbs, leaving an 8cm border, top with the fruit and and fold the pastry border up and over the filling to partially cover. Sprinkle the pastry with the remaining sugar and bake for 40 minutes or until the pastryis golden and the fruit is tender. Serve warm with cream.