Oma's Apfelkuchen / Pflaumenkuchen

This also makes a good Piroshki dough if you cut the pastry into squares.

Yield:
1 pan full
Category:
Desserts
Cuisine:
Canadian

INGREDIENTS:

  • Pastry :
  • 3 cups All purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tst. salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup whipping cream, beaten together with the egg
  • 3 tablespoons minute tapioca
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • Fruit :
  • Enough apples or halved plums, peaches , apricots, rhubarb, sour cherries or mangoes to cover the rolled out dough
  • Crumb Topping :
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 cup butter

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees, 325 for a convection oven.
  2. Pastry: combine the flour and butter in a food processor. Add the rest of the pastry ingredients. Mix a few seconds. Roll out on a floured board and place in a buttered rimmed roasting pan about 16 by 12 inches in size.
  3. Sprinkle the rolled out pastry with 3 tablespoons minute tapioca or flour.
  4. Fruit: Core and slice the apples or de-pit and halve the plums, etc.
  5. Crumb Topping: Mix flour and butter and sugar well in the food processor. Put on a well-floured counter and make crumbs out of the mixture
  6. Assembly: Put the fruit on the pastry and sprinkle with 1/2 cup of extra sugar. Then cover with the crumb mixture.Then sprinkle with sliced almonds
  7. Baking: Place in the heated oven and bake for about one hour. Check at 45 minutes to make sure the crumbs are not getting too dark.

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