Cheese & Apple Tartlets Recipe

Ingredients

Directions

1. Pastry: Combine flour and salt in large bowl.
2. With a pastry blender or 2 knives cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal.
3. Gradually sprinkle with ice water, tossing with a fork until all is moistened.
4. Gather dough into a ball.
5. Divide dough in half.
6. Form each ball into a square.
7. Wrap and refrigerate 30 minutes.
8. Assemble: Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
9. Cut each dough square in quarters.
10. On lightly floured surface, roll out each pastry piece to a 5-inch circle.
11. Press pastry rounds into 4-inch tartlet pans.
12. Trim edge.
13. Set pans on baking sheet.
14. Spoon chopped apples evenly in pastry shells.
15. Sprinkle each with 1 ts sugar.
16. Bake at 425 degrees F for 20 minutes until pastry is lightly browned and apple is tender.
17. Remove from oven.
18. Sprinkle each tartlet with 2 ts cheese.
19. Bake at 425 degrees F for 5 minutes until cheese is golden brown.
20. Serve hot or cold.
21. Source: Victoria Magazine, March 1995, from article on Common Ground heritage apples orchard in Lustleigh England.
22. MM formatted by Char Submitted By FEMINA@DELPHI.
23. COM On 22 MAR 1995 190049 ~0600