Recipe - Apple Tart

PASTRY
2 cup AllPurpose Flour
2 teaspoon Sugar
One half teaspoon Salt
2/3 cup Unsalted Butter, cut up
One fourth cup Milk
1 Egg Yolk

APPLE FILING
28 ounce Golden Delicous Apples,
Peeled, cored, and cut or sliced up
1/4" thick (6 cups)
1 tablespoon Lemon Juice
2 tablespoon Sugar
1 tablespoon Sugar

APRICOT GLAZE
1/3 cup Apricot Jam
1 tablespoon Apricot Brandy

Pastry: In a food processor combine flour, 2 teaspoon sugar and salt. Add butter
and pulse with on/off turns until mixture resembles fine cornmeal. Ib a 1
cup measure, whisk milk and egg yolk until blended. With processor running,
pour in egg mixture, processing until dough pulls away from sides of bowl
and forms a ball. Form dough into a flat rectangular shape. Wrap in plastic
wrap. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.

Apple Filling: In a large bowl, toss cut or sliced up apples with lemon juice. Set
aside.

Assembly: Preheat oven to 425øF. On a heavily floured surface, roll out
pastry to 16x12" rectangle. Arrange pastry flat on a large baking sheet.
Overlap apple slices in 3 lengthwise rows atop pastry, leaving a 1" border
of pastry on all sides. Fold edge of pastry up to, and slightly overlapping
apples. Press together seams of pastry at corners to seal. Pinch together
and cracks in pastry along edges to hold in juices. Sprinkle apples with 2
tablespoon sugar. Bake at 425øF for 2530 minutes until apples are tender and crust
is browned. Remove from oven and dust with 1 tablespoon sugar, then brush with warm
glaze. Cool tart on baking sheet set on rack.

Apricot Glaze: While tart is baking, in a small saucepan stir apricot jam
and apricot brandy over medium heat until melted. Press through a sieve.

Source: Victoria Magazine, January 1994 Typed by Katherine Smith Cyberealm
BBS and home of KookNet, Watertown, NY 3157861120

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