Sour Cream-Apple Tart

"This tart is full of apples in a nut-studded crust topped with a sour cream custard. From an April 1986 issue of Bon Appetit in the "Cooking for Friends" section. Chilling time is not included in prep time."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 30mins
Ingredients:
20
Serves:
8-10

ingredients

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directions

  • For Crust.
  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  • Mix flour and sugar in medium bowl;cut in butter using pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse meal.
  • Blend in egg, stir in walnuts and pat dough into bottom and 1/2 inch up sides of 10-inch springform pan.
  • Bake until golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes.
  • Cool and spread with warm jam.
  • For Filling.
  • Toss apples with lemon juice to taste.
  • Melt butter in large skillet over low heat.
  • Add apples and both sugars and stir to mix.
  • Cover and cook until apples are just tender, 10 to 12 minutes.
  • Uncover, increase heat to medium-high and cook until liquid has evaporated, 7 or 8 minutes.
  • Stir in raisins, cinnamon and peel; cool.
  • For Topping.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Beat sour cream, whipping cream.eggs,sugar and vanilla in bowl.
  • Spoon filling into crust.
  • Very slowly pour topping over, lifting apples so topping seeps through.
  • Bake until topping is consistancy of cooked custard, 35 to 40 minutes.
  • Sprinkle top edge of tart with chopped walnuts.
  • Cool to room temperature; refrigerate at least 8 hours or overnight.
  • Serve chilled.

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  1. I'm giving this a 5 because nuts, tart, sour cream and most importantly, TEXAS. My nephew is over from France and we're trying to include him into Thanksgiving in a few weeks, so, we took this for a test run this morning--our Sunday School class says, Thank You!
     
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