Easy apple tart

Kat's cherry pie and vanilla ice cream!
Kat’s cherry pie and vanilla ice cream! (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Very, very delicious. Very, very easy to make....
Very, very delicious. Very, very easy to make. It has sliced almonds and powdered sugar on top. Would be good with vanilla soy ice cream. Also good with drizzled pure maple syrup, in my opinion. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

375g pack puff pastry, preferably all-butter
5 large eating apples – Cox’s, russets or Elstar
juice of 1 lemon
25g butter, cut into small pieces
3 tsp vanilla sugar or 1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp caster sugar
3 rounded tbsp apricot conserve

Method

Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Roll out the pastry and trim to a round about 35cm across. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Peel, core and thinly slice the apples and toss in the lemon juice. Spread over the pastry to within 2cm of the edges. Curl up the edges slightly to stop the juices running off.
Dot the top with the butter and sprinkle with vanilla and caster sugar. Bake for 15-20 mins until the apples are tender and the pastry crisp.
Warm the conserve and brush over the apples and pastry edge. Serve hot with vanilla ice cream or crème fraîche.

Recipe from Good Food magazine,2005

I usually do it on a lower heat for longer.I put in some ground cloves

This is a good source I find

Eat well on a budget plus a few thoughts on prices

Good Food: 101 Budget Dishes: Triple-tested Recipes by Jane Hornby

You can get this for 1 penny on amazon,It’s part of a series of small cookery books aimed at people who are unable to spend too much time and money in the kitchen.

I got a catalogue today from an online clothes catalogue where I have shopped before.But now I’ll be lucky to afford a scarf.The scarf is £55!Also they sell dresses which are not washable!How weird is that?

For fruit and veg most supermarkets are expensive.I find Lidl‘s good and much cheaper.The jam is also very good.We do have a market but the quality is variable there

and the queue is long too

On a low income? : a blog about cookery using very cheap ingredients

http://agirlcalledjack.com/

This blog has been much praised here in the UK.I am not as short of money as she is but all our bills are rising far above inflation.

I also recommend,

Good Food on a budget by Georgina Horley

Frugal Food by Delia Smith and

The left over cookery book by Marika Hanbury -Tenison

Cookery Do by  Elaine Feinstein

.BTW        I looked at shoes in Clarks yesterday,what a shock to see the prices on the better shoes and boots.I have to have good thick soles…

So it’s just a new scarf for me this winter.Or TKMaxx