Serve 6 to 8
Ingredients
125gr unsalted butter , softened
50gr gr for the caramel
250gr plain flour
1 egg yolk
25gr custer sugar
Up to 75 iced water
8 apples depending on size peeled and quartered
Method
Make a well in the flour on a work ,top and it put the butter , egg and sugar . Gradually work the ingredients together and add just sufficient water to blind the pastry . do niot overwork it, and if you prefer ,make the pastry in a food processor . Melt about 50 gr unsalted butter in a heavy frying pan that you can can put in the oven , or a deep cake tin you can put on the stove and sprinkle in about the same quantity of sugar . Let the sugar dissolve and then arrange the apples in a pan , placing them slightly as they will shrink during cooking .
Rol out the pastry to slightly larger than the pan . Lay the pastry over the apples tucking it down inside the pan .
Put in a preheated oven at 180 degrees celcius at 200 gas mark 6 for about 40 minutes . check that that the apples are nicely golden and caramelized and carefully remove the pan over the oven . Place a serving plate over the pie and turn it over so that the apples are now facing up .
