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Bloomsbury Review - September/October 2002
The Children’s World Cookbook includes favorite recipes from many countries around the world. For the United States it is cheesecake and brownies! The most fascinating aspect of the book, though, may be the pages devoted to explaining one food type as it appears in different countries. For instance, the page on breads around the world shows pictures of brioche, pretzels, nan, pita, focaccia, and more. If your child has any sense of adventure when it comes to food, this book will surely be of interest. It is not a young child’s book, however, but meant for someone old enough to know his or her way around a kitchen - maybe even you. Reviewer - Cindy L.A. Jones, Ph.D.

French Apple Tart

(Serves 4)

175g/6oz. plain flour
85g/3oz. chilled butter
30g/1oz. caster sugar
1 egg yolk, beaten
1-2 tablespoons cold water
450g/1lb. cooking apples
55g/2oz. caster sugar
3 eating apples
2 tablespoons apricot jam
2 tablespoons hot water

a 20cm (8in.) flan dish

Oven temperature: 200°C/400°F/Gas mark 6

1. Sift the flour into a large mixing bowl. Cut the butter into small pieces and add them to the flour.
2. Rub the butter into the flour with your fingers until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs. Add 30g/1oz. caster sugar.
3. Mix in the beaten egg yolk and enough water to make a ball of dough. Put it into a refrigerator for 30 minutes.
4. Turn on the oven. Peel the cooking apples, cut them into quarters and cut out the cores. Slice the quarters.
5. Put the apples, cold water and sugar into a saucepan. Cook them over a low heat until the apple is soft. Stir well.
6. Sprinkle some flour onto a board and onto a rolling pin. Roll the pastry into a big circle about 2cm/1in. thick.
7. Line the flan dish with the pastry. Prick it with a fork and trim the edges with a knife. Bake it for ten minutes.
8. Spoon the cooked apple into the pastry case. Slice the eating apples and arrange them in circles on top.
9. Mix the jam with the hot water and brush it over the sliced apples to glaze them. Bake the tart for 30 minutes.

(c) 2000 Usborne Publishing Ltd.

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