Free-Form Apple Or Pear Tart

5.0(629)

by Mark Bittman

FrenchDessert, Side Dish

Servings

8 servings

Total time

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Ingredients (9)

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1 1/4 cups all-purpose flourflour
Pinch saltsalt
3 tablespoons sugarsugar
9 tablespoons cold butterbutter
1 egg yolkegg
3 or 4 medium apples, preferably Golden Delicious, or pears, peeled, cored and very thinly slicedapple
2 tablespoons brown sugarbrown-sugar
Crème fraîche, sweetened
Whipped cream or vanilla ice creamcream

Instructions (3 steps)

01Combine flour, salt and sugar in a food processor; pulse once or twice. Cut 8 tablespoons butter into chunks, and add it and egg yolk to flour mixture. Process until butter and flour are blended, about 10 seconds. Turn mixture into a bowl, and add cold water, a tablespoon at a time, stirring after each addition. After adding 3 or 4 tablespoons you should be able to gather mixture into a ball; wrap ball in plastic, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour (or freeze for about 15 minutes).
02Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Roll or pat dough into a 10-inch circle; it can be quite crude in shape. Place it on a cookie or pizza sheet, preferably nonstick. Arrange fruit slices on top, right out to edges; make the pattern attractive, if you like. Sprinkle with brown sugar. Cut remaining butter into bits, and top fruit with it.

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