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Apple tart (tarte aux pommes) recipe - food and recipes of France

Every French restaurant has apple tart as one of its staple desserts. Rightly so because it is quick, easy and delicious.

• Peel, core and slice three eating apples
• Fry the apple slices very gently in butter, with a couple of teaspoons of sugar, until slightly softened
• For the pastry, rub 75g of butter into 150g of flour, with a pinch of salt and 3 teaspoons of sugar. A small amount of water will be necessary to hold it together - perhaps 3 tablespoons of water
• Roll the pastry out flat and put in a tart tin (about 20cm across)
• Drain the apple slices and spread them on the pastry
• Bake in a hot oven (400F / 200C) for about half an hour
• Pour the remaining liquid from frying the apples on to the tart, and return to the oven for 5 minutes
• Eat your tarte aux pommes on its own or with creme chantilly (whipped cream). Ideally not from a squirty canister, but cream that has actually been whisked.

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