Adapted from Traditional Cakes and Pastries and Five Roses Flour Cookbook
Serves 10-12
Pastry Ingredients:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1/8 tsp salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 egg yolk
- ½ tsp pure vanilla
- 1 tsp finely grated lemon rind
Pastry Directions:
- Pre heat oven to 350°F
- Put all ingredients into a food processor and process JUST until the dough sticks together (over processing will cause tough pastry).
- Lightly flour your board and roll out pastry to fit your preferred pan (pictured is my 8” pan with two 3” pans). Poke bottom with a fork several times.
- Par bake crust 15 minutes.
Custard Ingredients:
- 250 mL milk (I used skim)
- 1 vanilla pod, split
- 3 egg yolks
- 40 g sugar
- 40 g all-purpose flour
- pinch of salt
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp ground almonds
Custard Directions:
- Heat milk and vanilla pod to a boil.
- In a separate pan, mix flour, sugar and egg yolks well.
- Pour the hot milk slowly onto the flour mixture, beating well all the while.
- Heat until mixture thickens to cover the back of a spoon (this will bake and thicken more).
- In a frying pan, melt butter and brown the ground almonds.
- Pour the custard through a fine sieve to remove any large egg flour lumps.
- Add brown butter almond to the strained custard.
Assembly:
- 2 Granny Smith Apples, peeled cored and sliced very thinly.
- ¼ cup apricot jam, heated so it is very thin.
- Pour the custard into the par baked pastry.
- Arrange the thinly sliced apples
- Bake in the 350°F oven for about 1 hour.
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I had to pop over and see this gorgeous tart. The pics are beautiful by the way. GREG
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[…] made any successful recipes from this cookbook from the Normandy Apple Tart to Profiteroles (and some that I haven’t even blogged about) and for the most part the […]
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Great tart! Yours looks spectacular 🙂
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Thank you kindly Ilan, it’s quite tasty as well.
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That looks amazing. I love the presentation.
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[…] Normandy Apple Tart (via Kitchinspirations) Posted on April 8, 2011 by My Grandparents' Kitchen Adapted from Traditional Cakes and Pastries and Five Roses Flour Cookbook Serves 10-12 Pastry Ingredients: 1 cup all-purpose flour ¼ cup sugar 1/8 tsp salt ½ unsalted butter at room temperature 1 egg yolk ½ tsp pure vanilla 1 tsp finely grated lemon rind Pastry Directions: Pre heat oven to 350°F Put all ingredients into a food processor and proces … Read More […]
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Today I was going to grill, now you make me want to bake 🙂
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