Traditional Homemade Apple Tart, as made by Nan.
Original recipe available here
30
Mins
Serves
12
Hard
Pastry
Ingredients
225g/8oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
125g/4oz Butter or Margarine
¼pt/150ml Cold Water (approx)
4 large Cooking Apples, peeled, cored and sliced
Sugar, to sweeten apples
Icing Sugar, to dust (optional)
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Directions
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Step 1:
Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. -
Step 2:
Place butter/margarine in the freezer for about 15 minutes to harden. -
Step 3:
Sieve flour into a bowl. -
Step 4:
Grate hard butter/margarine into the flour. You may need a little flour on your fingers for this. -
Step 5:
Using a knife, mix grated butter/margarine into flour. -
Step 6:
Add sufficient water and mix to a soft dough with the knife. -
Step 7:
Turn onto a floured board and knead lightly. -
Step 8:
Roll out half the pastry to the size of an oven proof plate. -
Step 9:
Arrange apples on the pastry. -
Step 10:
Sprinkle with sugar to sweeten. -
Step 11:
Roll remaining pastry to cover the apples. -
Step 12:
Dampen edge of base pastry with cold water to seal. -
Step 13:
Press top pastry over apples to make the tart. Seal the edges by using the back of a knife to form a crust. Then cut at 1"/3cm intervals to form a scalloped edge, if liked! -
Step 14:
Put a cut on top of pastry to allow steam to escape and bake for 25-35 minutes approx.