Apple Crumble Tart
- 500 g shortcrust pastry
- 1 kg cooking apple
- 500 g hard apples
- 12 lemon, juice of
- 150 -200 g sugar
- 110 g plain flour
- 85 g unsalted butter
- 55 g light brown sugar
- 55 g ground hazelnuts (or almonds)
- Roll out the pastry to a thickness of about 5mm/ 1/4in.
- Line a 25cm/10in tart tin with the pastry and bake blind.
- Meanwhile, peel and core the apples, slicing the dissolving cookers and chopping the hard eaters into neat 1cm/ 1/2in dice.
- Put both kinds together into a saucepan with the lemon juice and 110g/4oz of the sugar.
- Heat very gently until the juices begin to run.
- Cook the fruit, stirring occasionally at a very gentle simmer for 10-15 minutes, until you have a juicy compote of puree Bramleys (or similar) with tender pieces of Cox (or similar).
- To make the crumble: preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
- Sift the flour into a bowl and rub in the butter until you have fine crumbs, then toss with the hazelnuts and sugar.
- Spread the fruit into the cooked pastry case and sprinkle over the crumble in an even layer.
- Bake in a preheated fairly hot oven for about 30 minutes, until the crumble top is nicely browned.
- Serve the pie warm with vanilla ice cream or cream.
shortcrust pastry, apple, lemon, sugar, flour, butter, light brown sugar, ground hazelnuts
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/apple-crumble-tart-231047 (may not work)