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Normandy apple tart
Photo: Ludovic Péron, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)

Pastry · Recipe No. 206

Normandy Apple Tart

Normandy Apple Tart made with plain flour, butter, egg yolk and caster sugar. The recipe serves 6; change the portions and units below and the amounts update.

  • Serves 6

Method

  1. Frangipane:- Cream butter and sugar, gradually beat in egg,.

  2. Fold in flour and almonds.

  3. Pastry:- Sift Flour and make well.

  4. Put egg, salt, sugar and butter in well & mix add water.

  5. Gradually draw in flour working dough into crumbs.

  6. Using scraper gather dough knead for 1-2 minutes.

  7. Place into a 25cm flan ring prick, flute edges & chill.

  8. Filling:- Spread in the frangipane.

  9. Add the sliced apples into an arrangement like spokes of wheel keeping slices together.

  10. Bake in oven gas 6 for 10 minutes turn down to gas 4 cook for another ten minutes.

  11. Sprinkle with caster sugar cook for another ten minutes.

  12. Transfer to rack to cool. When cool - Brush with apricot glaze.

  13. Cream and Mint leaves to garnish.

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Converted from the Cookeryonline Excel workbook “SR206”.