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Mum's Apple Tart
Recipe by:
Brian F Green
As a little boy I grew up helping my mother make apple and other fruit pies. Sadly my mum is no longer with us, but her legendary apple tart lives on. I promise you will really enjoy this!
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Ingredients
Serves: 8
- Pastry:
- 200g (7oz) plain flour
- 100g (3 3/4 oz) self-raising flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon caster sugar
- 250g (9oz) unsalted butter
- 4 tablespoons soured cream or plain yogurt
- 1/8 teaspoon lemon juice
- Filling:
- 5 large Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and sliced
- 100g (3 3/4 oz) caster sugar
- 2 tablespoons plain flour
- 1/2 tablespoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 egg, beaten
Preparation method
Prep: 1 hour 15 mins | Cook: 45 mins1.
Grease a 23cm tart tin or pie dish.
2.
To Make Pastry: In a large bowl, combine flours, salt and sugar. Cut in butter until coarse crumbs are formed. Mix in soured cream and lemon juice. Keep mixing until dough forms a ball; dough may be slightly lumpy, this is fine. Wrap dough ball in cling film and allow to chill for 1 hour.
3.
Preheat oven to 180 degrees C (gas mark 4).
4.
Once the dough is chilled, take it out of the fridge and cut it in half. Put one half (for the top of the tart) back in the fridge.
5.
Roll dough out to 5mm thickness. To lift pastry, roll dough around a floured rolling pin and then unroll over the tin. Trim overhanging edges of pastry with a sharp knife.
6.
To make the filling: Arrange apples in the pastry base. In a small bowl, combine sugar, flour and nutmeg; mix thoroughly. Sprinkle mixture over apples. Squirt lemon juice over apples. Place pie in fridge while you roll out the pastry for the top of the tart.
7.
Remove pie from fridge. Brush outer edge of bottom pastry with beaten egg. Place second pastry on top; crimp the edges together with a fork. Brush entire top of pastry with beaten egg and cut 4 slits in the top.
8.
Bake in a preheated 180 degrees C oven for 45 minutes, or until golden brown. Allow pie to completely cool before serving. Serve warm with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
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Last updated:
17 Oct 2011
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Fantastic recipe!Pastry is perfect and there is plenty to go around
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Just had to say what a wonderful recipe this is. I had never made apple tart before and now I have made 5 in the past two weeks as they keep getting ate. Truely tasty
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Pastry is DELICIOUS and so easy to make and work with...I made this for the first time today for a big Sunday family lunch and everyone loved it!!
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I have been trying to find a nice recipe for pastry for ages... Today I found the best. I loved it, my family loved it. Thank you Brian!.. Only thing, I feel I added too much nutmeg, tomorrow, I am baking another and will add less. This pastry will be so useful in many other sweet pies.
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20 Oct 2010
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Everyone in my family loves this. I thought the pastry was too sticky but an hour chilling in the fridge made all the different- it was easy to roll out and tasted yummy after baking.
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03 Oct 2010
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The perfect apple pie indeed! Pastry was absolutely gorgeous and all in all the best apple pie I've ever made! Was a bit worried about using cream in the pastry and being too soggy to roll out but needn't have been - just added bit of extra flour when rolling out. Will definitely be making this again!
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26 Jan 2010
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This is quite simply, apple tart at its finest.
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this was the second time i have ever made apple pie, the first time was a disaster so i was initially reluctant to make it again, but it turned out amazingly well, the pastry was perfect, i cant believe i made it! the dough was very moist after adding the yoghurt so i added more flour and that fixed the problem, thank you for this recipe!
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25 Sep 2009
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I made this recipe today, I'm not usually that good at making pastry but this recipe worked like a dream all the family enjoyed this pie, I served it with homemade custard. Delicious. Thankyou.
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08 Mar 2009
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Altered ingredient amounts.
I added more plain flour to the pastry when the cream was mixed in. It was too moist for me to roll it out.
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22 Feb 2009
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