Recipe Testing: Tarte Normande

Normandy, in Northern France, is famous for its apples. It is also famous for quite a few of the things that the Normans make from these apples – cider and calvados being particularly notable. You could therefore expect that a Tarte Normande has at least a passing acquaintance with the fruit.

You would be right.

Here’s the various stages of preparation – it’s quite a batch job as even a small tart uses a surprising quantity and it would be wrong to be miserly.

It does help – as it does with most things – to have a decent paring knife. This one is made by WÜSTHOF DREIZACK – one of the two superb German kitchen knife companies.

 Once assembled onto the (gluten, dairy and egg free) pastry case that has been filled with (gluten and dairy free) almond filling, it looks like this:

It looks a little unwieldy, the way the apples are piled up so high above the tart. But it all comes right in the end, especially after it has been glazed to make it look delicious.

Perfect with a splash of cream.