The elder sister, Sthanie, dealt with the kitchen. She was a particularly fine cook but was not the brightest of people. Her specialty was an apple tart, served perfectly crusty, caramelized and which melted in the mouth. One day during the hunting season, during the midday scramble, Stephanie placed her tart in the oven the wrong way round. The pastry and apples were upside-down but, nevertheless, she served this strange dessert without giving it time to cool.
The French call this dessert tarte des demoiselles Tatin the tart of two unmarried women named Tatin. Bake as mentioned above. Once done, cover the tarte with a serving dish and flip it upside down. Eat warm". Another recipe appears in when Paul Besnard, a local judge and amateur folklorist publishes a recipe he has "treasured for a good many years". The judge's recipe uses uses a tool , called a 'four de campagne', literally a portable oven, that was then in widespread use, but has since disappeared.
It was basically a tin-plate hood that was shaped so that it could hold hot coals on top of it. Cooks would use it to cover dishes on the stove, thus surrounding them with heat so as to mimic an oven. Arrange over it a layer of quartered apples, then sprinkle with more sugar, and dot with butter. Cover with flaky dough the thickness of a coin. Bake on a coal-fired stove covered with a 'four de campagne' that has been topped with glowing embers.
Baking should last 20 to 25 minutes, after which one removes the four de campagne to check the tarte by lifting the edge of the dough with a knife. It is ready if the apples are golden, and the sugar starts caramelizing. Cover the tarte with a serving dish, and flip it over so that the apples end up facing up. Serve warm. The best apple for this dish is a yellow pippin streaked with red veins.
Peaches can be used instead of apples. He claims his is the real thing because he got it from his mother who cooked for the sisters in It is almost a verbatim copy of the judge's recipe, but adds an interesting precision:. One would put hot coals over the lid so that they would bake from above and below It is very important for the caramel to form while the apples are cooking. Despite the tarte's solid reputation across the region, it does not seem that its recipe was ever published while the sisters were alive.
The judge's publication in , as part of a book of poems, likely reached a limited audience. In the late s, the tarte's celebrity rose to new heights when it showed up on the menu of Maxim's, the famous Parisian restaurant. How it got there is a bit of a curious story. According to Louis Vaudable, the long-time Maxim's owner, " I used to hunt around Lamotte-Beuvron in my youth, and had discovered in a very small hotel run by elderly ladies a marvelous dessert listed on the menu under tarte solognote.
I questioned the kitchen staff about its recipe, but was sternly rebuffed. First Known Use of tarte tatin , in the meaning defined above. Learn More About tarte tatin. Time Traveler for tarte tatin The first known use of tarte tatin was in See more words from the same year. Style: MLA. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Test your knowledge - and maybe learn something along the way. Love words?
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