Apple Galette

from the "new" Joy of Cooking cookbook, this is described as being "...a bit like a pizza, with thinly sliced apples on a buttery crust". This recipe is loosely interpreted from the Joy recipe, not an exact quotation, and uses my own personal crust recipe. Joy recommends using their Deluxe Flaky Butter Pastry Dough. Mine is also a flaky butter pastry crust.

Crust (in food processor, or in bowl with pastry blender):

Blend 6 T. butter with 1 1/2 cups flour. Add 1/4 cup cold water until it forms a dough. Handle sparingly. Roll into a thin 11-12" circle and place on aluminum foil on baking sheet.

Ingredients:

Crust
3 T. melted butter
1 T. sugar
2 large apples
Cinnamon Sugar (2 T. sugar + 1/8 t. ground sugar)

Brush some of the melted butter onto the prepared circle of pastry and sprinkle with 1 T. sugar. Carefully lay the apples, peeled and sliced 1/8" thick in slightly overlapping concentric circles. Brush or drizzle almost all the rest of the butter over the apples, reserving about 2 teaspoons. Sprinkle the apples with the Cinnamon Sugar. Fold the crust up, about an inch, over the apples.

Bake at 425 for aboaut 15-20 minutes, until the pastry "begins to color", then reduce the temperature to 350 for about 20-30 minutes, until the pastry "is golden brown and sounds crisp when poked with a skewer". Remove from oven and brush apples with remaining 2 teaspoons butter. Allow to cool on rack.

Serve warm or at room temperature.

Best eaten the same day it is baked!!