Normandy Pear Tart Recipe (Tarte aux Poires Normande)
This delicious tart has become a signature recipe of Normandy. Sliced pears are arranged like petals and baked in almond cream. Pears should be ripe, or they will discolour during cooking. Getting Ahead: The tart is best eaten the day of baking, although it can be kept up to 2 days in an airtight container. ORDER OF WORK: Make the Sweet Pastry Dough Line the Flan Tin Make the Almond Cream Prepare the Pears Assemble and Bake the Tart
- Time: 90 min
- Servings: 6
Source: RecipeMatic
Ingredients
- lemon
- ripe medium pears, total weight about 625 g (1 1/4 lb
- #For The Sweet Pastry Dough#
- plain flour
- egg yolks
- sugar
- Salt
- unsalted butter, more for pan
- vanilla essence
- #For the Almond Cream#
- whole blanched almonds
- unsalted butter, at room temperature
- caster sugar
- egg
- egg yolk
- kirsch
- #For the Apricot Jam Glaze#
- apricot jam
- kirsch or water