Morning all,
My parents gitfted me a whole load of bramleys cooking appples, and buy gifted you understand they wanted me to bake a pie or tart out of it. For them!
Ofcourse I don't mind it's the weekend afterall, prime baking time. The recipe that follows is mine: trialled and error from years of practice.
I did however buy the pastry but if you want to make one (why???) then click for a recipe
here
use butter to greas the pie dishe and line with coat to coat, lightly.
roll out the shortcrust pasty
Line the pie case with pastry and plug the holes so to speak with leftover pastry dont worry about it being neat it's meant to look homemade.
Prick the pastry with a fork all over to stop it doming in the oven
Using non stick baking parchment line the base of the tart with baking beads or lentils or rice. Bake in a preheated oven at 200℃ for 10-15mins.
Take out the lentils and cool on a wire rack completely before filling.
Take a load of cooking apples
Peel
Wash and chop
Add the zest and juice of a clementine, 150g caster sugar and cook until mushy.
Peel and finely slice 2 eating apples and place in lemon water
Bubbling apples almost ready, take out the clementine skin
Let it cool a little off the heat
Beat an egg
Paint egg onto cooled tart shell
Fill the tart with the apple compote and add the sliced leftover apples on top
Bake for a further 10-15mins at 200℃
Finally, paint the tart with warm apricot jam. serve warm.
