Tarte aux Fruits

Name: Tarte aux Fruits
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: Serves 8–10
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: icing sugar for dusting; juice of ½ lemon; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 125 g (4 oz) plain flour; 125 g (4 oz) unsalted butter; 150 g (5 oz) caster sugar; 500 g (1 lb) nectarines; 500 g (1 lb) peaches; 2 eggs, beaten; a pinch of salt

Fruit tart

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 25

Appears in

The Cooking of Provence

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1995

About

This is a wonderful recipe which you can use with all kinds of fruit. A thick cake batter is patted into a tart tin and the fruit is laid over the top. It bakes to a most attractive and delicious cross between a cake and a pie.

Ingredients

150 g (5 oz) caster sugar
125 g (4

Europe
France
Pie
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 4/180°C/350°F.

Cream the sugar with the butter. Sift the flour with the baking powder and salt and stir into the butter mixture, then add the eggs. Mix only enough to blend the ingredients. Spoon the batter into a 23-25 cm (9-10-inch) loose bottomed