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- From: Iain G Liddell <Iain.Liddell@brunel.ac.uk>
- Subject: Tarte Tatin
- Message-ID: <13655.9311051141@molnir.brunel.ac.uk>
- Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 93 11:41:43 GMT
-
- There was a posting recently on Tarte Tatin. Coincidentally, as
- I was going through my recipe books for the two below, the BBC
- were showing ... the making of TT at Hotel Tatin, Lamotte-Beuvron!!
- I now find that even my conventional TT is not traditional, since
- the apples are not cooked on top of the hob.
-
- However, here are my two TT recipes if you want to use them - the
- micro-TT is very useful since it is "a deux".
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- Tarte Tatin (serves 6)
- =========== (oven preheated 200C/400F)
-
- Pate brisee
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- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 egg
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 3 Tbs heavy cream
- 0.75 cup unsalted butter
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- Place flour in large bowl: place other ingredients in well in centre.
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- Gradually blend ingredients into pastry.
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- Chill 2 hrs before rolling out 5mm thick to 25cm diameter.
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- Keep pastry cool.
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- Fruit topping
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- 0.5 cup unsalted butter (softened)
- 0.33 cup brown sugar
- 0.33 cup white sugar
- 4-5 tart firm cooking apples
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- Mix sugars together.
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- Butter thickly a 22cm tart pan: cover with 0.5 cup sugars.
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- Peel, core and slice apples: lay on sugar in neat pattern.
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- Dot with remaining butter.
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- Cover pan with pastry (to overhang).
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- Bake @ 200C/400F for 25 mins.
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- Turn pan upside-down onto plate: lift off pan to reveal tart.
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- If necessary, broil until apples are caramelised.
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- Based on: Jules Bond: The French Cooking I Love (Amiel, NY, 1970s).
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- Micro Tarte Tatin (serves 2)
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- One-third portion of Pate Brisee as above, rolled 3mm thick
- to diameter of 15cm.
-
- 4 tart eating apples
- 50g unsalted butter
- 80g dusting sugar
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- Heat microwave browning plate @ 100% for 8 mins.
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- Peel and core apples: cut each into 12 wedges.
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- Melt one-third of butter on browning plate: place apples
- on plate and dust with sugar.
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- Cook uncovered @ 100% for 2 mins.
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- Transfer apples to 15cm diameter Corning dish: dot with
- remaining butter.
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- Cook @ 70% for 3 mins and turn over apples.
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- Cover (carefully - hot!) with pastry: pierce holes in pastry.
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- Cook @ 70% for 3 mins, ignoring pastry 'bubble-up'.
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- Turn dish upside-down onto serving plate: allow 5-6 mins to
- cool before lifting off dish.
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