Warm Apple Tart with Berries
- 10 medium size crisp eating apples (about 2 1/4 pounds)
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup Calavados
- 8 ounces puff pastry, (appx.) fresh or frozen
- 7 ounces boysenberries, blueberries or raspberries (about 1 1/2 cups)
- 8 egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons water
- Peel, halve and core apples.
- Cut each half into 8 to 10 evenly sized wedges.
- Melt butter in large frying pan; add apples and saute over high heat 2 to 3 minutes.
- Stir in sugar.
- Add 4 tablespoons Calavados and flame.
- Let cool.
- Thaw puff pastry if frozen.
- Roll out less than 1/4 inch thick.
- Brush baking sheet with one tablespoon cold water; place pastry on sheet and cut out a circle 9 inches in diameter Prick pastry well all over.
- Reserve liquid from apples.
- Arrange apples on pastry in a rosette pattern.
- Bake five minutes at 450 degrees; reduce heat to 375 and bake 20 to 25 minutes.
- Remove from oven and arrange berries in little mounds on top of apples; return to oven and bake three to five minutes longer.
- For a sabayon sauce combine egg yolks, remaining Calavados, 2 tablespoons water and cooking juices from apples in top of double boiler over hot, not boiling, water.
- Beat continuously with wire whisk until frothy, very smooth and thick enough to coat back of spoon.
- Place tart on round serving plate.
- Pour a little sabayon sauce around the edge and serve remainder in a sauce boat.
apples, butter, sugar, calavados, pastry, blueberries, egg yolks, water
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/2272 (may not work)