Snowflake Tart

Name: Snowflake Tart
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: the white of 1 egg; 6 oz (175 g) plain flour; 2 lemons; the yolks of 2 eggs; 1 oz (25 g) caster sugar; 3 tablespoons (3 x 15 ml spoon) water; 1¾-2 lb (800–900 g) cooking apples; 3 oz (75 g) butter; juice of ½ lemon; 2 oz (50 g) fine semolina; 3 oz (75 g) caster or granulated sugar; ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml spoon) salt; 6 oz (175 g) caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sweet Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1985

About

This is a delicately smooth apple and lemon tart topped with thin slices of sharp lemon frosted with egg white, which look just like drawings of snowflakes, hence the name. The pastry is particularly good and very easy to achieve, crisp and biscuit-like. It is best served cold (but not taken straight from the fridge).

Ingredients

For the pastry

6 oz (175 g) plain flour
½ teaspoon (2.5

Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Make the pastry first. Sift the flour and salt and caster sugar into a bowl. Stir in the semolina. In a small saucepan, melt the butter with the water. Add the hot liquid all at once to the flour. Stir around with a wooden spoon to form a dough. Press this warm dough evenly all over the bottom and sides of a 10-inch