[rec.food.recipes] LACTO: Apple Tart Tatin

lisaco@microsoft.UUCP (Lisa COPELAND) (10/16/90)

Here's an Apple Recipe:
(Don't Expect this to last a long time)

Apple Tart Tatin

(From Julia Child's The Way to Cook)

6 Apples - See Note at End
1&1/2 C Sugar
Juice of 1 Lemon
3/4 C Butter
Single Recipe of Pie Pastry  

Peel and Core Apples and cut into eighthes. Toss with 1/2 C Sugar and juice
from Lemon in a bowl. Let stand twenty minutes to exude juices. Put butter 
in a cast iron skillet and melt. When melted, add 1 C Sugar and cook until
sugar starts to brown. Layer apples in the skillet. (It is okay if they are
higher than the top of the skillet. Cook for about 25 minutes, basting apples
with juices from skillet with a bulb baster. Roll out pastry in a circle 
one inch larger than the skillet. Lay pastry on top of apples, tucking edges
in between apples and skillet. Bake at 425 degrees for twenty minutes. Invert
onto serving dish and serve. 

Note On Apples: I use a 1:2 ratio of sour to sweet apples when making an
apple dessert. I usually use macintosh or granny smith as my sour apple 
and red or golden delicious as the sweet apple. Lately, however, I have 
been experimenting with different varieties and made this recipe with 
3 newton pippins and 3 jonagold. There was a chart on apples in Sunset 
magazine this month that was very informative.