Tarte des Demoiselles Tatin

Name: Tarte des Demoiselles Tatin
Yield: Serves Four
Ingredients: 100 g/4 oz rich shortcrust pastry (see Mincemeat Flan); 100 g/4 oz rich shortcrust pastry (see Mincemeat Flan); finely grated rind of ½ lemon; 50 g/2 oz granulated sugar; 1 kg/2 lb good dessert apples; about 50 g/2 oz castor sugar; about 50 g/2 oz butter

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

This is a sort of gourmet’s Upside-Down Apple Cake.

Ingredients

100 g/4 oz rich shortcrust pastry (see Mincemeat Flan)
about 50

Dessert
Cake

Method

First make the pastry and put it, well wrapped, in the refrigerator to relax.

Grease an 18-cm/7-inch flan dish very thickly with the butter. Sprinkle with a deep layer of the castor sugar. Peel and