Country Apple Tart

By rmulleni

Ingredients

• 1 lemon
• 1 lb tart apples (2-3)peeled cored and thinly sliced
• 1/2 c sugar (reserve 2 tsp. for crust)
• 1 TB all purpose flour
• 1/4 tsp apple pie spice or 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 refrigerated pie crust (half of a 15 oz pkg)
• 1 TB unsalted butter, cut into six pieces

Details

Servings 4
Preparation time 14mins
Cooking time 40mins
Adapted from sunset.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Grate 1 tsp of lemon peel and squeeze 2 tsp of the juice from the lemon. Set aside. Toss the apples with the sugar, flour, spice, lemon peel and juice.

Place the pie crust on a rimless baking sheet lightly dusted with flour. Dust a rolling pin with flour and roll the pastry to a rough 13 in circle. Heap the apples on the psstry, leaving a 2" border all around. Scatter the butter on the fruit. Fold the pastry border back over the apples to make an uneven rustic edge of about 1 1/2 inches, leaving the slices in the center exposed. Sprinkle the reserved sugar over the pastry border.

Bake 12 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 425 degrees and bake until the apples are softened and bubbly and the pastry is golden brown, 12-15 minutes longer.

Serve warm or at room temperature on the day of baking.