Orange and Almond Tart

If you buy this croustade in a pastry shop, it will be decorated in pastry or icing sugar with the beautiful Occitan cross or cross of Toulouse. The history of this emblem is much disputed. Whether it came from the eleventh-century Counts of Venasque in Provence, whose land passed to the Counts of Toulouse in Languedoc, or from the Cathars, or from the crusades and the Jerusalem cross, or from the Visigoths for whom it represented the twelve signs of the zodiac, or the Zoroastrian su