French Apple Tart

Name: French Apple Tart
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1 1/3 cups (6 2/3 ounces), all-purpose flour; 5 tablespoons (2 1/4 ounces), sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 10 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted; 10 , Golden Delicious apples (8 ounces each), peeled and cored; 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1 tablespoon, water; 1/2 cup, apricot preserves; 1/4 teaspoon, salt

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2014, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

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SERVES8

TIME2½ hours, plus 1½ hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

A classic French apple tart is little more than apples and pastry, but such simplicity means that imperfections like tough or mushy apples, unbalanced flavor, and sodden crust are hard to hide. In our recipe a quick and buttery pat-in-pan d...

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