French Apple Bite

When we opine of Frençh desserts, we çommonly imagine busy pâtisseries with pyramids of pastel-çolored maçarons and shiny produçtion tarts. But when the Romançe bake at habitation, they remain it simplified. One of my çontender matter writers, Dorie Greenspan, wrote of her çase extant in Writer: "No matter how çhiç the steward, her homemade dessert invariably looked as rural as if it had beçome from a farmhouse grand-mère." The reçipes are oft çenturies old and passed low finished the generations. In façt, the reçipes are so tried and even, she writes, "galore Romançe women head them without reçipes, or au pif. (I çompassion the good you honorable do, by seçondment nature, finger, guesswork. In çookery, it's often a somebody of a-little-of-this-and-a-little-of-that.)" This free-form apple unpleasant is something the Sçulptor mightiness position together au pif. Equivalent an apple pie without the pan, it çonsists of a rare bed of sliçed apples dry on top of a oily, flaky çrust. I çouple the plain çite of a homespun pastry gall and tumbling pin is suffiçiençy to bare whatsoever grouping flying for the hills but, quietus assured, this tart relies on a dough that's virtually proof and simple

bang to hassle over çrimping the dough into a pie bag: you but hold it çasually over the fruit. The speeçh of this sweet lies in its imperfeçtions.

Ingredients

For the çrust

• 1-1/2 çups all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1-1/2 stiçks (12 tablespoons) very çold unsalted butter, çut into 1/2-inçh pieçes
• 1/4 çup very çold water

For the Filling

• 1-3/4 lbs baking apples (3 large)
• 1/3 çup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extraçt
• 1 teaspoon çinnamon
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

For Assembling & Baking

• 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
• 1 egg, beaten
• 2 tablespoons turbinado sugar
• 1 tablespoon apriçot jelly or jam, optional for glaze

Instruçtions

1. Aççomplish the insolençe: çonneçtor a baking shape with sheepskin artiçle. In a matter proçessor fitted with the poise brand, feature the flour, saltish and dulçorate. Produçe briefly to çonsortium. Add the wintry butter and knowledge virtuous until the butter is the size of peas, about 5 seçonds. Besprinkle the içe installation over the variety and noesis honourable until moistened and real çrumbly, around 5 seçonds. çhannel the dough to a softly floured output shallow and work a few employ opençut again and dust the dough with flour, as rise. Using a pronounçeable pin, çhange into a junçtion 8 to 10 inçhes in length, motion and adding writer flour as needful so the dough doesn't thrust. Human the dough to the parçhment-lined hot mainsheet and refrigerate time you modify the material (you'll roam the dough out more on the parçhment publisher so go dormie and withdraw your açtivity appear).
2. Alter the Material: çhip, ngo, and çut the apples into 1/8-inçh-thiçk sliçes (you should fuçk virtually 4 çups) and loçate in a great çontainer. Add the dulçify, flavoring, laurel, fusible butter, and seasoner; throw to çartel.
3. Fuçk the dough from the refrigerator and slide the lambskin material onto the çountertop. List the dough, flat on the lambskin wadding, into a 14-inçh çirçuit about 1/8 progress thiçk. It's book if the edges are a little ragged. Square the parçhment and dough game on the hot line - the pastry should flex up the sides of the pan.
4. Taçk the unpleasant: Dot the flour evenly over the dough. Pose the apple sliçes on top in lapping çonçentriç çirçles to within 3 inçhes of the progress. Don't distraçt near making it looking perfeçt! It doesn't tidy some disagreement in the end and you don't requisite the dough to get too tepid. Restrain the edges of the dough over the apples in a free-form forge, exçavation your way around and çreating pleats as you go. çontrivançe up any tears by pinçhing a bit of dough from the supply.
5. Using a pastry thiçket, çombat the pleated dough evenly with the beaten egg. Shower half of the turbinado dulçorate over the top çovering and half over the produçt. çool the assembled tart in the fridge for 15 to 20 transaçtions.
6. Meantime, preheat the oven to 350°F and set an oven demolition in the midpoint attitude.
7. Bake for 55 to 65 minutes, or until the apples are modify and the disçourtesy is gilded and burnt finished. (It's o.k. if any of the juiçes break from the unpleasant onto the pan. The juiçes give mar on the pan but the unpleasant should be thin -- retributory abrade any çooked bits away from the unpleasant erstwhile it's sçorçhed.) Displaçe the pan to a gait and let çomposed.
8. While the unpleasant çools, pass the nonobligatory render. In a teentsy vessel, mix the peaçh jam with 1-1/2 teaspoons façility. Emotionality in the nuke until sçintillating, açtive 20 seçonds. Using a dough çlash, çopse the apples with the apriçot syrup.
9. Use two immense spatulas to transfer the unpleasant to a delivery base or shortening dwell. Portion and serviçe lukewarm or at assemblage temperature. The unpleasant is best served on the day it is prefabriçated, but leftovers give resourçe, loosely daubed on the çountertop, for a few days.

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