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Alsatian apple tart

This tart from France's Alsace region has a sweet pastry (or sweetcrust) case, filled with raw apple slices and a light vanilla egg-custard mixture, then baked.

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Last modified on: July 15^th 2018

Keywords for this recipe:Pastry Tart Alsace Apple Flan Sweet dough Sweetcrust pastry

For 1 Alsatian apple tart, you will need:

1 250 g Sweet pastry
2 50 ml milk
3 50 g liquid cream
4 100 g caster sugar
5 10 g Vanilla sugar
6 80 g egg ( How to... )
7 500 g apple
Total weight: 1,040 grams

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Roll out 250 g Sweet pastry.

Line a tart ring 8 inches (22 cm) in diameter.

Refrigerate until needed.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Prepare the custard filling by whisking together 50 ml milk, 50 g liquid cream, 100 g caster sugar, 10 g Vanilla sugar and 80 g egg.

Leave to rest in the fridge.

Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C).

Stage 3 - 7 min.

Peel 500 g apples, cut into quarters, then again into eighths (more or less slices).

Stage 4 - 2 min.

Take the pastry case out of the fridge and trim off any surplus pastry to neaten around the edge.

Impottant: check that there are no holes in the pastry, or the filling will run out onto the baking sheet during cooking.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

Arrange the apple slices in the case...

Stage 6 - 2 min.

...and pour the filling around them.

Put in the oven immediately.

Stage 7

If you have any left over pastry, apple and filling, use these up by making mini tarts.

Stage 8 - 25 min.

Bake for about 35 minutes, then leave to cool in a wire rack. Serve warm or cold.

Remarks

For a richer version, reduce the quantity of milk and increase the cream.

Keeping

1 or 2 days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,063 Kcal or 4,451 Kj	16 gr	182 gr	32 gr
53 %	6 %	17 %	5 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
102 Kcal or 427 Kj	1 gr	18 gr	3 gr
5 %	1 %	2 %	<1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 Alsatian apple tart : 2.29 €

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Source

Based on a recipe from the INBP (French professional bakery institute).

This recipe uses (among others)

	Apple: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Stewed apple (compote), Canadian apple crumble, Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, Tarte Jurassienne, Autumn apple and plum crumble pie, ... All
	Sweet pastry: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Tarte Normande, Lime meringue tart, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pear charlotte, Apple custard tart, Double raspberry tartlets, Amaretti, Blackberry and almond fondant tart, ... All
	Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Toasted-flour biscuits, Little chocolate and hazelnut fondants, Fresh pasta dough, Apple custard tart, Grapefruit moelleux, ... All

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