Doornikse appeltaart

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    people
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Dark Rye and Honey Cake: Festival baking from the heart of the Low Countries

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2023

  • About

I discovered this recipe for apple pie connected to the city of Doornik (Tournai) in a cookery manuscript from Ghent; it was then copied into the Cocboeck published in 1593 by Carolus Battus, who also shared a recipe for an apple pie ‘in the Wallon fashion’. Both these recipes in their turn were then reproduced in De Verstandigen Kock (The Clever Cook), which was published first in Amsterdam in 1667, but had several editions published in Antwerp, and editions in Ghent and Brus