Thursday, September 22, 2016

Apple tartlette experiment - bread crust!

Burnt again - but still very tasty. Single serving dish. Baked in my stovetop cast iron frying pan oven invention. Butter the dish. Layer pieces of bread, (about 1" size), as a crust. I used pieces of a Portuguese roll. Mix up some butter, sugar, and cinnamon and dot onto the bread. Next time i will spread it on the bread before tearing up the bread. It may be easier and better distribution. Then spread little chunks of an apple - still greenish small Macintosh in this case. Dot the rest of the butter-sugar-cinnamon mixture onto the apples.
The mixture was c. 1 T. butter, 2 heaping t.'s sugar, and (?) 1/4 t. Cinnamon. I am guessing amounts since i do it all by eye.
The little tart goes into aluminum commercial pie tin into the fry pan. Put tinfoil loosely over this. Cover with another pie tin. Cover the whole fry pan. Cook on the stove top at low heat - just at that edge where things brown but don't burn right away. If you cook too long, yes, it will burn. I was busy with something, so this did burn, but not so badly that it was a deep burn, or that it did not taste good. Neither do i know how long i cooked it for or how soon it can be ready. It is the apples that need to get soft so that the juices really soak down through. Next time I'll try to mind better. I could not resist to eat a bit before getting the pic. The whole reason for making this is that i don't really like the apples when they are still too green. These are just a bit too early. But it is supposed to be a bad apple season here this year. So I bought some now at the supermarket - the somewhat local tote kind.

Though this was made with smallish pieces of bread, they did form a crust from the butter mix and juices dripping down through. I trimmed what you see here into half the tartlette and could pick it up in my hand to eat. It stayed together.

And some apples in a tree where I have not been apple picking for several years. An apples watercolor as a frenchfold notecard to download, print out, and fold. In my Etsy shop
https://www.etsy.com/listing/250717952/apple-bough-watercolor-frenchfold

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