Apple Tart

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 cups unbleached flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup margarine, cut into small pieces
• 4 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces
• 1 egg yolk
• 6 tablespoons cold water
• 6 cups tart apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 lime, juice of
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/3 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1/4 cup vanilla sugar

Recipe

• 1 to make the crust, place the flour, sugar, salt, margarine, and butter in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a metal blade. pulse 5 times.
• 2 add the egg yolk. with the motor running, add the water.
• 3 process until the dough sticks together, this will take only 5 to 6 seconds.
• 4 remove the dough from the bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• 5 to make the filling, place all the filling ingredients in a bowl, mix well, and set aside.
• 6 cut the dough in half. roll one piece into a circle 1/4 inch thick and fit that into the bottom of a buttered 9-inch springform pan, curling the dough around the sides. spread the apple filling evenly over the crust.
• 7 roll out the remaining dough to a 1/4-inch thickness and cover the apple mixture with it, tucking the sides of the dough into the pan with a thin spatula.
• 8 cut a few slits in the top crust.
• 9 bake for 35 to 40 minutes at 350 degrees or until the tart is golden brown. let cool to room temperature before serving.
• 10 dust the tart with vanilla sugar and cut into wedges, and serve.
• 11 *vanilla sugar - open a box of confectioners' sugar into a plastic container. take a fresh vanilla bean, split it lengthwise, scrape some of the seeds into the sugar and mix well. place the slit vanilla bean in the plastic continaer and store for 3 or 4 days.