Name: Buttery Apple Tarts
Yield: Makes 12 to 14 servings
Ingredients: 3 ounces (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, room temperature; 1 cup (100 grams) unsifted powdered sugar, optional; 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice; 2 pounds (about 3) Golden Delicious apples; 2 cups (280 grams) unsifted all-purpose flour; 1 tablespoon honey; 8 to 10 tablespoons ice water; ¼ cup (65 grams) granulated sugar; 8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, chilled; ¼ teaspoon salt

Flo Braker

Buttery Apple Tarts

Preparation info

Makes
12 to 14

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Simple Art of Perfect Baking

By Flo Braker

Published 1984

About

Imagine juicy, thin slices of apples, lightly flavored with a lemon-butter sauce on a golden, crisp pastry. This recipe is adapted from Jacques Pépin’s apple galette.

Ingredients

Butter Pastry

2 cups (280 grams) unsifted all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon salt<

Vegetarian
Baking
Pie

Method

Advance Preparations

Prepare Butter Pastry following the recipe for Classic Piecrust but with these differences:

Increase the butter to 8 ounces and eliminate the shortening. Cut in the butter until the fragments range in size from bread c