Asti-Style Apple Tart with Honey, Orange, Lemon, and Grand Marnier

Torta di Mele Profumata All’astigiana

Preparation info
  • 8 to 10

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By Marcella Hazan

Published 1997

  • About

On his return from a wine producers’ convention in Piedmont, my husband, Victor, brought back for this tart he had in the restaurant of Giuliano Zonta’s Hasta Hotel in Asti. As he is not known for his fondness for honey, his admiration for this dessert led me to believe that there had to be something unusual about its flavor. There is indeed. The apple filling is cooked in a skillet with a fascinating mélange of lemon and orange aromas in the form of zest, juice, and