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- From: r.gagnaux@chnet.ch (Rene Gagnaux)
- Subject: Croustade aux pommes (Flaky apple tart)
- Message-ID: <iABRkXtJ/m@chnet.ch>
- Organisation: Private, Schattdorf, Switzerland
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 00:00:00 +0100
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- Title: Croustade aux pommes (Flaky apple tart)
- Categories: Tart, Apple, France
- Yield: 1 tart
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- 250 g Flour; Superfine pastry ...
- 1 Egg
- 1 dl Water; lukewarm
- 2 tb Groundnut oil
- 1 pn Salt
- Butter; for greasing
- Flour; for dusting
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- 100 g Butter; melted
- 120 g Sugar (1)
- 30 g Sugar (2)
- 4 md Apples; preferably coxes
- - peeled, quartered
- - very thinly sliced
- 2 tb Armagnac
-
- Units: 250 g = 9 oz; 1 dl = 3 1/2 fl oz; 100 g = 3.5 oz; 120 g = 4
- 1/3 oz; 30 g = 1 oz
-
- This apple tart originates from Gascony, more precisely the Gers.
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- Pastry
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- Put the flour in a bowl and make a well in the centre. Put in the
- rest of the pastry ingredients and, using the fingertips of one hand,
- gradually draw the flour into the centre, working the mixture with
- the fingertips of your other hand until vou have a smooth, fairly
- soft dough.
-
- Hit the dough in the bowl for 1-2 minutes with your fist to make it
- smooth and give it a bit of body. Roll it into a ball, cover with a
- damp cloth and leave in a cold place for 1 1/2 hours.
-
- Rolling out the pastry case
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- Cut the dough into 2 equal pieces. Lay a smoothy, dry cloth on your
- work surface and flour it very lightly. Put one piece of dough on the
- cloth and start to stretch it outwards wich your fingertips, taking
- care not to tear the dough. The dough should be stretched so thin
- that you can see through it. Leave it in a dry place on an
- immaculately clean surface while you repeat the operation with the
- second piece of dough. Leave both pieces to dry out slightly for 5-10
- minutes.
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- Dip a pastry brush into the melted butter and sprinkle droplets of
- butter over the surface of the pastry. Scatter over the sugar (1),
- then cut out three 22cm/9in circles from each piece of pastry. Keep
- the trimmings.
-
- Assembling the croustade
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- Preheat the oven to 230 C/450 F/gas 8.
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- Grease the frying pan or flan tin (22 cm/9in) with butter and loosely
- lay 3 pastry circles one on top of the other in the bottom, without
- pressing them down. Arrange the sliced apples on the pastry and
- moisten with armagnac, then sprinkle with the sugar (2). Layer the 3
- remaining pastry circles on top of the apples and scatter the pastry
- trimmings randomly over the surface.
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- Cooking
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- Bake the croustade in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, until it
- is a delicate nutty brown, then use a palette knife to slide it on to
- a wire rack.
-
- Serving
-
- Serve the croustade just warm; it will be wonderfully succulent. Give
- your guests a serrated knife and let them help themselves.
-
- From: The Roux Brothers, French Country Cooking, M Papermac, 1992,
- ISBN 0-333-57670-5
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