Monitor's Tart

Ingredients

• three-quarters of a pound of good puff paste
• three-quarters of a pound of butter
• one pound of flour
• one pound of apples
• a quarter of a pound of lump sugar
• one ounce of butter
• a little powdered cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Make puff paste and roll out half to line a tart tin.

2. 2

   Stew apples with sugar, butter, and cinnamon until tender.

3. 3

   Cool the apples, fill the tart, cover with remaining pastry, brush with egg, and bake for three-quarters of an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 935. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Monitor's Tart. — Make three-quarters of a pound of good pufi paste, observing the proportions of three-quarters of a 2X)und of butter to one pound of flour. Divide in two portions, roll out one half to about a quarter of an inch thick, and cut it round with a tin-cutter. "Well flour the pastry, and transfer it to the oven-leaf, which should be quite cold. Fill the tart with a compote of apples, pre- pared in the following manner : — Stew one pound of apples, cut into quarters (pared and cored), in a clean saucepan, with a quarter of a pound of lump sugar, one ounce of butter, and a little powdered cinnamon

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.