Apple-Prune Galette
- 1 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 9 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 4 tablespoons cold water
- 6 or 7 pitted prunes, coarsely chopped
- 1 pound flavorful baking apples, such as Gravenstein or Braeburn
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons Calvados, Armagnac, or Cognac
- 1 tablespoon sugar, for sprinkling
- Prepare a hot fire (450F) in a wood-fired oven or cooker.
- To make the dough, combine the flour, salt, and sugar in a bowl.
- Stir with a whisk to blend.
- Using your fingertips or a pastry blender, rub or cut the butter into the flour until some of the butter is in flakes and the rest is the size of peas.
- Stir in the water 1 tablespoon at a time to moisten the dry ingredients.
- Form the dough into a ball.
- It will still look a little rough with some streaks of butter.
- On a floured board, divide the dough into 2 pieces, flatten each piece into a disk, and wrap in plastic.
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hour or up to 3 days.
- Freeze the extra disk of dough for up to 1 month.
- To make the filling, cover the prunes with hot water and let soak for 15 minutes.
- While the prunes soak, peel and core the apples and cut them into 1/8-inch slices.
- Drain the prunes.
- Put them in a bowl with the apples and toss with the sugar and liquor.
- On a floured board, roll 1 disk of the dough out into a 14-inch round.
- Transfer the disk to a cornmeal-dusted pizza peel.
- Mound the fruit in the middle, leaving a 2-inch border of exposed dough.
- Fold the dough over the fruit, pleating it to close as you go around.
- Sprinkle the folded-over dough with the 1 tablespoon of sugar.
- Slide the galette from the peel directly onto the hearth of the wood-fired oven.
- Bake until the crust is brown and the apples yield to the tip of a knife, 25 to 30 minutes.
flour, salt, sugar, cold unsalted butter, cold water, prunes, baking apples, sugar, calvados, sugar
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/apple-prune-galette-391841 (may not work)