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Apple Tarte Tatins Part 2
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Position the rack in the bottom third of the oven. Roll out the dough and cover the apples according to directions for Tarte Tatin Pastry (see recipe below). Bake until the crust is golden brown, about 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes Run a knife around the edge of the tarte to loosen it. Place in a large plate or platter over the skillet and carefully but quickly invert the tarte onto the plate. Let stand a few minutes to cool slightly. Cut into wedges and serve. Tarte Tatin Pastry: Makes 2 Tartes Tatin pastrys shells. Combine the flour and salt in a large mixing bowl. Add the butter. Rub the flour and butter between your fingers until most of the butter is incorporated and only pea-size pieces remain. Whisk together the egg yolk and water. Add the flour mxture and stir until dough begins to come together. Gently press the dough into a ball. Refrigerate until firm but not hard, about 30 minutes. (If made ahead let dough stand at room temperature until pliable but still cold) Do not roll out until just before the fruit is finished cooking. To roll out the pastry flour a work surface and rolling pin well. Divide the dough in half. (Freeze the remaining dough if not needed) Pat the dough into a flat disk then roll it out into a circle almost 1/4 inch thick and at least 11 inches in diameter, flouring the surface and the rolling pin frequently to prevent sticking. Carefully place the pastry over the fruit in the skillet. Trim the dough to 1/2 inch larger than the skillet Tuck the overhanging dough in around the fruit.
NOTES : For a Pear Tarte Tatin, substitute 6 large firm pears(Bosc or Anjou would be good) for the apples. Peel the pears, cut them in half lengthwise, and core them. Arrange them like spokes in the pan.
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Apple Turnover
Cook sweetener, cinnamon, water, and lemon juice with apple. Cook until tender. Cool. Remove crush from bread. Roll thin. Place apple mixture on 1/2 bread. Fold diagonally. Moisten edges and press together with fork. Bake at 425 degrees slower until crisp. Remember to eat crust of bread.
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Apple Turnovers with Custard
Combine sugar and cornstarch in a saucepan. Stir in milk until smooth. Cook and stir over medium-high heat until thickened and bubbly. Reduce heat; cook and stir for 2 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in 1 cup into yolks. Return all to pan. Bring to a gentle boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla. Cool slightly. Cover surface of custard with waxed paper; chill.
Plac apples in a bowl; sprinkle with lemon juice. Add butter. Combine sugar, cinnamon and cornstarch; mix with apples and set aside. Divide pastry into 8 portions; roll each into a 5 inch square. Spoon filling off-center on each. Brush edges with milk. Fold over to form a triangle; seal. Crimp with tines of fork. Make steam vents in top. Place on greased baking sheets.
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Apple Apricot Strudel
Unfold 1-2 phyllo leaves, depending on the thickness you prefer. Place leaves on a damp cloth to keep from drying up while you are working. Heat butter in microwave oven for 30 seconds. Paint the first leaf with melted butter. Place the second leaf on top of the first and paint it with butter and sprinkle bread crumbs over it. Mix fruits, sugars, nuts, lemon rind and juice. Place half this mixture on edge of dough nearest you in one strip. Roll like a jelly-roll. Place first strudel roll in a buttered 9 inch baking dish. Paint top lightly with melted butter, sugar and cinnamon.
Prepare the other two leaves the same with the remaining ingredients. Bake each roll separately 8-9 minutes basting top once with butter Makes 2 strudel rolls, about 16 pieces when cut. Microwave time: 8 1/2 - 10 1/2 minutes. Chill 15 minutes. Brush with milk. Bake at 400 for 35 minutes. Serve warm with custard.
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Apple Phyllo Rolls
Coat a nonstick skillet with cooking spray; place over medium heat until hot. Add diced apple; saute 8 to 10 minutes, stirring often. Add cinnamon, nutmeg and brown sugar; str well, and cook an additional 3 minutes. Remove from heat, and let cool.
Coat a flat surface with cooking spray; place 1 sheet of phyllo on surface (keep remaining phyllo covered). Coat phyllo with butter-flavored cooking spray. Layer 2 more sheets phyllo on first sheet, coating each with cooking spray. CUT Vertically into 5 equal strips; cut strips in half to make 10 pieces. Repeat process with remaining phyllo sheets, spraying each sheet with cooking spray.
Spoon 1 1/2 tsp apple mixture at base of each strip; roll up, jelly roll fashion. Place, seam side down, on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. BAKE at 375 deg for 30 to 35 minutes or until golen. Remove to wire rack to cool slightly.
Combine remaining ingredients in a small bowl; stir well. Drizzle 1 1/2 ts glaze over each roll. Serve warm.
Yields: 30 appetizers (30 cal each)
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Applesauce Raisin Doughnuts-Mix
Combine applesauce, raisins, sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla and egg. Add Mix, stirring until thoroughly blended. Turn dough onto well-floured surgace and knead about 10 times or until smooth. Roll or pat dough to about ½ inch thickness. Cut into rings using floured doughnut cutter. Fry 3 or 4 rings at a time in hot shortening. Turn as soon as they rise to the surface and continue turning until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Shake doughnuts in mixture of 1/2 cup sugar and 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg. Yield: 1 dozen, 2-1/2 inch doughnuts and holes
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Apricot Fritters
RINSE THE APRICOTS, slit the sides and remove the pits with a small spoon, leaving the apricots intact. Replace each pit with an almond. Place the apricots in a bowl and sprinkle the slit sides with the rum. For the batter, combine the dry ingredients in a bowl and whisk in the water, then the melted butter. Pour the oil into a 4-quart pan and heat it to 350F. With a fork, dip the apricots into the batter and add to the hot oil 3 or 4 at a time, frying them about 6 or 7 minutes, until the batter is a deep golden and the apricots are cooked, but still firm. Drain the fritters on absorbent paper as they are fried and keep them warm in a 300F oven. To serve, sprinkle the fritters generously with confectioners' sugar.
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Apricot or Chocolate Filled Rugelah
Place the cream cheese, butter, confectioner's sugar, lemon juice and vanilla in a food processor.
Add the flour and pulse til a very soft dough is formed. Refrigerate for at least ONE HOUR.
Mix the ingredients for the filling of your choice and divide the dough into 4 balls. Roll the balls out into 4 circles, about 1/8 inch thick and spread with apricot or chocolate filling.
Cut into pie- shaped pieces 1-inch wide at the circumference. Roll up from the wide side to the center.
Beat the egg and brush the top.
Sprinkle with the crystallized (or granulated) sugar and place flat on a greased cookie sheet. (Alternately, roll out each ball to a rectangle, 1/4-inch thick. Top with apricot or chocolate filling.
Roll each rectangle into a jelly roll and cut into 1/2-inch pieces. Lay flat on a greased cookie sheet. Beat the egg, brush the tops of each cookie, and sprinkle with the crystallized (or granulated) sugar.
Bake on a greased cookie sheet in a preheated 350 degree oven for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
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Baked Cinnamon applesauce Doughnuts
Dissolve yeast in warm water in a large bowl; let stand 5 minutes. Add 3 cups flour, applesauce, and next 6 ingredients; beat at low speed of an electric mixer until moistened. Beat at meduim speed for an additional 2 minutes. Stir in 2 cups of flour, 1/2 cup at a time, to form a soft dough. Turn out onto a well-floured surface. Knead until smooth and elastic(about 5 minutes); add enough remaining flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, to prevent dough from sticking to hands. Place dough in a bowl coated with cooking spray, turning to coat top. Cover and let rise in a warm place, free from drafts, 1 hour or until doubled in bulk. Punch dough down, and turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Roll dough to 1/2 inch thickness; cut with a lightly floured 2 1/2 inch doughnut cutter. Combine doughnut holes and any remaining scraps of dough; reroll to 1/2 inch thickness and cut as before. Place doughnuts on baking sheets coated with cooking spray; brush 2 tablespoons melted margarine over doughnuts. Let rise, uncovered, in a warm, draft-free place for 40 minutes. Combine 1/2 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon in a large zip-top heavy-duty plastic bag, and set aside. Bake doughnuts at 425 degrees for 8 minutes or until golden. Immediately brush remaining 2 tablespoons melted margarine over baked doughnuts; add doughnuts to plastic bag. Seal the bag and shake to coat. Yield: 3 dozen doughnuts
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Baked Doughnuts
1. Sprinkle the yeast over the warm water in a small bowl and let it dissolve for 5 minutes. Put the milk and shortening in a saucepan and heat until the shortening is melted. Cool to lukewarm.
2. Pour the yeast mixture into a large mixing bowl and add the milk mix. Stif in the 1/4 cup sugar, salt, nutmeg, eggs and 2 cups flour. Beat briskly until well blended. Add the remaining 2 1/2 cups flour and beat until smooth. Cover the bowl and let double in bulk, about 1 hour.
3. Dust a board generously with flour and turn the dough mass onto it. This dough is soft and needs enough flour on the board to prevent sticking, but is easy to handle. Pat the dough into a round about 1/2 inch thick. Use a 3 inch doughnut cutter and cut out the doughnuts, placing them (and the doughnut holes) on greased baking sheets, 1 inch apart. These don't spread much; they rise. Preheat oven to 450F. Let the doughnuts rest and rise for 20 minutes uncovered. Bake about 10 minutes or a little longer, until they have a touch of golden brown. Remove from the oven. Have ready the melted butter and a brush. On a sheet of wax paper, spread the cinnamon sugar. Brush each doughnut and doughnut hole with butter and roll in the cinnamon sugar. Serve hot.
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Baking Butter Graham Cracker Crust
Soften Baking Butter in the microwave for 20 seconds and mix it with the warm water. In a mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients and mix well until moistened. Divid the crumb mixture into 2, 9" vegetable sprayed pie pans and press evenly on the bottom and up the sides. I prefer not TOO thick a crust. Bake at 350 F. for 15 minutes. Cool. Fill with any kind of filling you like.
These would freeze well, tightly wrapped.
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Banana Cinnamon Doughnuts
1. Heat oil in a deep-fat fryer or deep heavy skillet. Time heating so it will be ready when you are prepared to begin frying doughnuts. Use Canola oil if you prefer, but peanut oil has a higher smoking point and is a good choice for frying.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Cut in margarine using a pastry blender or two knives.
3. Make a well in center of mix and add mashed bananas and eggs. Mix well. You can do this with a wooden spoon, or since dough will be very stiff you may want to use your hands to mix it well.
4. Place dough on a lightly floured surface and roll to 1/2-inch thick. Cut with a 2-1/2 inch doughnut cutter that you dip in flour as needed.
5. Deep-fry, a few at a time, until golden brown. Drain on brown paper bags. Fry the doughnut "holes" also.
6. Combine sugar and cinnamon in a paper bag or place on a shallow plate. Coat warm doughnuts with this mixture.
Yield: about 22 doughnuts and 22 centers.
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Basic Easy Crust
In a medium-size bowl stir the flour and salt together. Cut in the shortenings using a pastry blender. Keep working the flour and shortenings until the mixture is rather grainy, like coarse cornmeal.
In a small bowl mix the egg and vinegar together and, using a wooden fork, stir the mixture into the flour. Add enough ice water so that the dough barely holds together.
Place on a marble pastry board or a plastic countertop and knead for just a few turns, enough so the dough holds together and becomes rollable. I roll my dough out on waxed paper. It is easy to handle that way.
If you have a marble rolling pin this will be easy. If you use a wooden one be sure to dust a teaspoon of flour on it a couple of times when you are rolling the dough.
Note: If you wish to use this recipe for a sweet pie simply stir in 1 tablespoon of sugar along with the flour and salt.
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Basic Pate A Choux
Place liquid, butter, salt and sugar, if using, in a medium saucepan and bring slowly to a simmer. Turn off heat and add the flour all at once. Stir vigorously with a wooden spoon until it forms a ball. Return to medium heat to dry the paste so it will have the maximum puffing ability: turn the ball around in the pan, pressing it against the sides and flipping it over, until butter starts oozing out and the paste no longer sticks to your fingers. Remove from heat and let cool a bit. Turn the paste into a medium bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle and beat in the eggs, one at a time, with a wooden spoon or the paddle. Each time you add an egg, the mixture will become slippery and messy but will then come together, at which point you can add the next egg.
Load mixture into pastry bag with a round tip (1/2 or 1-inch depending on size puff desired) and pipe out as required. It will give the fullest puff if used right away but can be held for several hours. Basic proportions for Pate a Choux are 1:1:1:1/2, or 1 cup liquid, 1 cup flour:1 cup egg:1/2 cup butter. Water makes choux more crisp, milk makes them more tender,
Puffs expand when cooked as water in batter turns to steam and explodes the dough.
Pate a choux is an extremely versatile pastry that can be the base of many sweet and savory dishes. It can take many forms: be poached as gnocchi, baked to form hollow puffy balls that can be filled with various things, or fried as fritters and sprinkled with sugar. It is neutral in flavor so is adaptable to any cuisine.
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Basic Puff Pastry
Cut 1/4 cup butter into 1-3/4 cups flour with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal. Sprinkle cold water (1 tablespoon at a time) evenly over surface; stir with a fork until dry ingredients are moistened. Shape into a ball, and wrap in waxed paper. Chill 15 minutes. Combine 3/4 cup butter and 1/4 cup flour; stir until smooth. Shape mixture into a 6-inch square on waxed paper. Chill 5 minutes.
Roll pastry into a 15-inch circle on a lightly floured surface; place chilled butter mixture in center of pastry. Fold left side of pastry over butter; fold right side of pastry over left. Fold upper and lower edges of pastry over butter, making a thick square. Working quickly, place dough, folded side down, on a lightly floured surface; roll dough into a 20- x 8-inch rectangle. Fold rectangle into thirds, beginning with short side. Roll pastry into another 20- x 8-inch rectangle; again fold rectangle into thirds. Wrap dough in wax paper, and chill about 2 hours. Repeat rolling, folding, and chilling process 2 additional times. Chill for 2 hours. Yield: one recipe Basic Puff Pastry.
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Beignets
Mix all ingredients except oil and powdered sugar. Knead and let rise until doubled. Punch down. Roll into rectangle. Cut dough into into 2 inch wide strips at a diagonal. Cut again diagonally to form diamonds. Place on ungreased baking sheets, 2 in apart. Cover loosely with plastic wrap. Gather up scraps and let rest 15 minutes. Roll and cut as before. Let rise until doubled in bulk, about 45 minutes. In a large saucepan, heat 3 inches of oil to 365 or until a 1 in cube of bread browns in 60 seconds. Carefully slide beignets into hot oil 3-4 at a time. Do not crowd. Fry until puffy and golden brown on both sides, turning once with tongs. Should be about 2-3 minutes per side. Remove with slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Sift powdered sugar over hot beignets and serve hot. Makes 36.
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Beignets(French Market Beignets)
Dissolve yeast in warm water. Add beaten egg, sugar, salt, oil and evaporated milk. Pour all liquid into flour, and mix well. Chill overnight (a MUST).
Roll out next day on a well-floured board to 1/3-inch thick or more. Cut into squares with a knife. Fry in at least 2 inches of oil until brown on both sides. Dust with powdered sugar.
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Belgian Apple Fritters
Peel, core and slice apples into rings. Blend flour and beer to a paste. Dip each apple slice in the batter and fry in deep fat (at approximately 390 degrees) until golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper. Keep fritters hot in oven. Serve with light custard, or sprinkle with powdered sugar. These fritters are light and crisp and the beer leaves no taste. Serves
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Blueberry Bear Claws
Cream 4 tablespoons sugar, butter, and almond paste until thorouhgly mixed. gradually add cookie crumbs, mix well. add milk to moisten and set aside. add remaining sugar to roll mix and prepare dough according to package directions. let rest 5 min. roll in 24 x 8 inch rectangle. spread with almond paste, cover evenly with blueberries. starting on long side, roll up, seal and cut into 8 3-inch pieces. make 4 evenly spaced slashes part way through each piece, bend into a curve so slashes open slightly. place on greased sheet pans and let rise until doubled. brush with beaten egg. bake at 400 degrees 15-20 min. or until lightly browned. drizzle with lemon icing. garnish with sliced almonds.
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Blueberry Kuchen
Preheat oven to 350F.
PASTRY: Place flour, sugar and salt in a medium size mixing bowl. Cut in the chilled butter, then rub mixture with your finger tips until it resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle with the vinegar and shape gently into dough. Press dough into an ungreased 9-inch round cake pan to a thickness of about 1/4 inch. The crust should be worked to 1 inch up the sides of the pan.
FILLING: Place the 3 cups of blueberries on the crust. Mix the sugar and cinnamon into the flour and sprinkle evenly over the berries. Place in the oven on the lowest rack and bake for 50 minutes or until the crust is golden and the filling bubbles.
Remove from the oven and immediately sprinkle with the remaining 2 cups of blueberries. Let the kuchen rest at room temperature for about an hour. Then sprinkle with the powdered sugar and serve.
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