Apple Tart
From Cookipedia
A rich apple pie that can be made in just over an hour.
For the pastry:
Ingredients
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- 250g of plain flour
- 125g of unsalted butter
- pinch of salt
- 1 free range egg
- 1 tablespoon of cold water
For the topping:
- 65g of caster sugar
- 15g unsalted butter
- 1/2 a tablespoon of lemon juice and half lemon zest
- 3 or 4 apples
- 100 ml of double cream
- 1 free range egg
- 5g icing sugar for dusting
Mise en place
- Preheat the oven and a baking tray to 220 °C
Method
- Mix flour, butter and salt. Add the egg, water and mix again
- Knead the dough for a few seconds, until smooth
- Roll the dough to 2 mm thickness
- Use a tart ring with a diameter of 20-22 cm to shape the dough, tucking it to the tart ring. Prick the bottom of the tart with a fork
- Meanwhile, for the topping: heat the butter, lemon juice and zest with 15 g of sugar
- Peel and cut the apples into segments and arrange them in circles
- Brush the apples with the butter and lemon juice
- Put the tart on the baking tray and bake for 10 minutes at 220 °C
- Reduce the temperature to 220 °C and cook for another 20 minutes
- While cooking, whisk the double cream, egg and the 50 g of caster sugar left. Sprinkle the tart with some sugar and pour the mixture on the tart.
- Bake for further 10 minutes
Serving suggestions
Leave to cool for 1 hour, remove the tart ring and dust with icing sugar.
See also
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/appletartmamanblanc_93268
- http://allrecipes.com/recipe/french-apple-tart-tarte-de-pommes-a-la-normande/
- http://www.joyofbaking.com/AppleTart.html
- http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/French-Apple-Tart-363307
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/3315764/Kitchen-classics-apple-tart.html
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