St Patrick's Day recipe: Irish apple cake

Apple cake recipes vary from house to house, and the individual technique will have been passed from mother to daughter for generations. It would originally have been baked in a bastible or pot beside an open fire and later in the oven or stove on tin or enamel plates – much better than ovenproof glass because the heat travels through and cooks the pastry base more readily.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/14/dessert-st-patricks-day?CMP=twt_gu