Twee Appel Tartes

At the moment, many farms are getting rid of their 2011 apple harvest and so if you go to a farmer's market this week, you may find a large bag of cheap apples. This pairs nicely with a steamy cup of coffee or tea on a warm spring day.

Eerste appel tarte (the left tarte):
1 pre-made pastry dough (bladderdeeg)
4-5 apples peeled and thinly sliced
1 1/2 cups of quark or available substitute
3 egg yolks
1 tablespoon of armagnac or cognac
3-4 tablespoons of white sugar
1/2 jar of apricot jam
1-2 remaining egg whites (can save last on for the next apple tarte if you want to make both).

Place dough in baking dish and pre-bake for 5 minutes
mix quark and egg yolks until smoothe. Add armagnac and sugar and whisk until shiny. Remove pastry from oven, poor quark-egg mixture into form and bake for 15 minutes. Remove when starting to brown just a bit, and cover with apple slices. Mix 1/2 jar of apricot jam with remaining egg whites and poor over apples. Bake 30-40 minutes or until brown.

Tweede appel tarte (the right one):
Pastry dough
7 Apples
4 tablespoons of brown sugar
1/2 jar of apricot jam
1-2 egg whites

Place dough in baking dish and pre-bake for 5 minutes.
Chop 3 apples into small cubes and cook with a bit of water and brown sugar until soft. This should become a chunky applesauce.
Peel and slice the remaining 4-5 apples. Remove baking dish from oven and spread apple sauce evenly. Cover with apple slices. Mix apricot jam with egg white and pour over apple slices. Bake for 25-30 minutes of until golden brown.

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