Ingredients
-
1 cup
flour
-
2 tablespoons
flour
-
1/4 teaspoon
salt
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1 tablespoon
sugar
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1/2 cup
butter, cut into pieces
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1/2 teaspoon
vanilla
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2 tablespoons
ice-cold water
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4 tablespoons
brown sugar, more to taste
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1 tablespoon
flour
-
1/2 teaspoon
cinnamon
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6
apples, peeled, cored and sliced approximate
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1 tablespoon
butter
(optional)
Directions
- Pastry.
- Put the flour, salt, and sugar in a large bowl.
- Add the butter pieces and pinch with the fingers to create a crumb texture. Make a well in the middle, and pour in the vanilla and water.
- Quickly work in the flour to create dough.
- Do not over-mix.
- Pat into a disk, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate 15 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 450°F/230°C.
- Roll the pastry into a round and lay on a baking sheet.
- Filling.
- Roll the pastry into a round and lay on a baking sheet.
- Stir together the sugar, flour, and cinnamon in a bowl.
- Toss in the apples to coat, and dump onto the pastry.
- Dot with the butter.
- Bring the edges of the pastry up over so they lay in, rough-edged, on the apples. They won’t cover the apples completely.
- Bake until the crust is crisp and golden and the apples soft to a fork and caramelized, 40 to 45 minutes.