Apple Apricot Tartlets

"Just the thing for Sunday Tea!Serve piping hot with whipped cream."
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
11
Yields:
6 Tartlets
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ingredients

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directions

  • To make pastry, dice butter coarsely.
  • Sift flour and salt into a bowl.
  • Add butter with lemon juice and water.
  • Mix lightly with round bladed knife to make a soft dough, incorporating bits of butter.
  • Turn on to floured surface, knead and roll lightly into a thick strip 30x 10cm, keeping edges straight.
  • Fold up bottom third of pastry, dust off excess flour.
  • Fold down top third of pastry and dust.
  • Turn so that top fold is towards left side, Seal edges lightly and reroll and refold four times in all, giving pastry a half turn each time and chill between rolling if pastry becomes too sticky.
  • (Always roll in one direction and never over the edges of your dough.) Wrap and chill or freeze until ready to use.
  • To prepare filling, peel, core and quarter apples.
  • Slice quarters into thin crescents 4mm thick.
  • Divide puff pastry into six equal parts and roll out each piece to a thickness of one centimetre.
  • With a small saucer, cut out pastry discs 11cm in diameter and place on a baking sheet.
  • With a biscuit cutter 10cm in diameter, press lightly on each round to make an incision on each, about 1 mm deep.
  • This incision allows the edge to rise and form a border around the apples.
  • Overlap thinly sliced apples in the inner circle to form a pretty pattern.
  • Dot each tartlet with small pieces of butter and sprinkle with sugar and 2-3 lemon peel slivers.
  • Cool in refrigerator for 30 minutes, then bake at 200 C for 15-20 minutes.
  • When tartlets are well baked, place under the grill for a few minutes to brown apples and paint immediately with hot apricot jam.

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