Apple Tart à l’Alsacienne

An Alsatian tart is distinguished from other French tarts in that the fruit is baked with a custard. My mom would bake three tarts at a time in our wood-burning oven while she was also making dozens of cookies. And when I was apprenticing for my uncle, I’d make twenty of these a day!

We make tarts using all kinds of fruit: prune, plum, pitted cherries, apricots, and peaches, and the tarts are all made the same way, no matter the fruit, though for very moist fruits such as plums and