Name: Taffety Tart
Yield: serves 4
Ingredients: 12 small rose geranium leaves (optional); 1 tablespoon fennel or anis seeds; 2 medium-sized Bramley or other tart cooking apples; 2 tablespoons rosewater; 4 tablespoons caster sugar; 25 g/1 oz butter, softened; 250 g/½ lb puff or sweet short pastry (p,65); grated zest of 1 lemon

Preparation info

serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Scented Kitchen

By Frances Bissell

Published 2012

About

This recipe, with its exquisite combination of lemon, rosewater and anis, dates back to the seventeenth century, and it has the great advantage of being very easy to make. I once put it on the menu at the British Embassy in Cairo and was pleased that it seemed to be very much to the taste of the sophisticated Cairenes invited to the luncheon.