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Pompe aux pommes du Perigord

20/12/2012

2 Comments

 
This traditional Perigord dessert was first cooked for me by a neighbour, who would be horrified to know that I now prepare the dish using ready-rolled puff pastry from the supermarket. But as long as you get a brand that has been prepared using real butter, pre-made puff pastry is one of life's great shortcuts.

Pompe aux oommes du Perigord is a hand-formed layered apple puff that screams of autumn. If you own a mandolin, and use that to prepare the apples, this is a pudding that can be ready to eat within 40 minutes of work beginning, provided you don't mind burning your tongue when you tuck in.

2 cooking apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
250g slivered almonds
200g muscovado sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
75ml sunflower oil
2 beaten eggs, separate (one to be used as an egg wash)
350g puff pastry made with butter
pinch of salt


1. Preheat oven to 190C. Set aside 1 tbsp each of the almonds and sugar for decorating, plus one beaten egg to use as a wash.
2. In a large bowl, mix together all remaining ingredients bar the pastry. If you use your (clean) hands, you can ensure a more even mixture.
3. Roll the pastry into a rectangle about the thickness of a pound coin, and cut into four equal rectangles.
4. Spread the mixture onto one pastry rectangle, top with a second, and then repeat. Do not put mixture on the top layer; instead cover it with an egg wash then sprinkle it with the almonds and sugar held back in the beginning.
5. Pinch the edges together to form a seal, and bake on a greased baking tray for 25-30 minutes. It is cooked when the top is golden.

Recipe via www.traditionalfrenchfood.com
2 Comments
April Starke
13/11/2017 10:47:42 am

Please check the oven temperature. This did not work, and other recipes suggest about 375 F.
Thank you.

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Martin link
17/11/2017 09:04:12 am

190C is 375F.

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