Apple Tart
Apple Tart Ingredients:
- 225g / 8oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
- 125g / 4oz Margarine
- 1/4 pint / 150ml Cold Water (approx.)
- 4 Large Cooking Apples (peeled, cored and sliced)
- Sugar to sweeten apples.
Apple Tart Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. Use an ovenproof plate. Place margarine in freezer for about 15 minutes to harden. Longer if time allows.
- Sieve flour into a bowl. Grate hard margarine into the flour. You may need a little flour on your fingers for this.
- Using a knife, mix grated margarine into flour.
- Add sufficient water and mix to a soft dough with the knife.
- Turn onto a lightly floured board and knead lightly.
- Roll out half the pastry to the shape of the oven proof plate. Arrange apples on the pastry. Sprinkle with sugar to sweeten.
- Roll remaining pastry to cover the apples.
- Dampen edge of base pastry with cold water to seal.
- Press top pastry over apples to make the tart. Seal the edges.
- Put a cut on top of pastry to allow steam to escape.
- Bake for 35 minutes approx. Serve with ice cream, custard or cream.
