Normandy tart

Name: Normandy tart
Yield: Serves 10–12
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 tbsp Calvados, kirsch, or whatever liqueur you like; 2 large eggs; a pinch of salt; 60 g caster sugar; a few drops of almond essence; 225 g plain flour plus extra for dusting; 140 g cold butter plus extra for greasing; 170 g ground almonds; 1 medium egg; 170 g caster sugar; 170 g butter; 3–4 small red dessert apples, skin left on, cored and halved; 100 g smooth apricot jam; juice of ½ lemon

Preparation info

Serves
10–12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Prue

By Prue Leith

Published 2018

About

I’ve been demonstrating this dish for years, and it always gets a gratifying round of applause when it comes out of the oven. It’s a piece of cake (or tart) to make if you have a food processor.

Ingredients

For the pastry

225 g plain flour plus extra for dusting
140 g cold butter plus extra for greasing

Europe
France
Pie
Mediterranean
Normandy
Vegetarian

Method

Heat the oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas mark 6, and put a baking sheet on the middle shelf to heat. Lightly butter a 26cm (10in) loose-bottomed tart tin and dust with flour, tipping out any excess.
For the pastry, whizz all the ingredients tog