So i just did my second experiment from my le cordon bleu recipe book! This time i decided to make what they call “Tarte Normande”, which after i read the recipe, realized that it’s just basically apple pie (probably french style lol). So i decided to give it a try. But again, french recipes are usually kind of convoluted with too many components to prepare so i’m not gonna go thru it step by step. Just some photos i took along the way!
^sievving the powders!
^mixing with butter for the crust!
^ adding in the egg for the crust!
^fresh apple wedges!
^frying the apple wedges!
^ apples starting to caramelize!
^adding in the brandy, then allowing the apples to fire in the pan! :D
^apples done!
^crust ready to bake!
^apple wedges lined up in the crust!
^adding in the batter!
^bake bake bake!
^fresh out of the oven!
^ done! (the bottle next to the pie is my dad’s bottle of brandy that i used for this recipe!) :D
so apparently, the last step of the recipe was to pour some more brandy over the pie and then use a kitchen torch to fire the surface so it’ll bring out the brandy aroma. I dont have a kitchen torch so i thought i could just pour some brandy then use a lighter to set the pie on fire to achieve something similar (just like how the apples caught on fire in the pan above), but it didnt happen :( oh well. it still tasted fine tho! :D
-Ney
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