Easy French Apple Tart

Name: Easy French Apple Tart
Ingredients: about ¾ jar good apricot jam; 8 oz packet puff pastry (225 g); 5–6 cooking apples

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Taste of Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1976

About

Very like those delicious shiny apple tarts which make your mouth water in pâtisseries all over France – but this is really simple to make.

Ingredients

8 oz packet puff pastry (225 g)
5–6 cooking apples
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Dessert
Pie

Method

Roll out the pastry very thinly. Lay it on a large flat, buttered baking tin. Fold over the edges by about one inch. Peel the apples and slice very thinly. Arrange the apples neatly overlapping on the pastry leaving the folded edges uncovered. Pre-heat oven to Gas 6 (400°F/200°C) and bake towards the top of th