Apricot Flan (valais)

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Title: APRICOT FLAN (VALAIS)
Categories: Fruits, Swiss
Yield: 1 tart

750 g Apricots; ripe
- fresh or frozen
1 1/2 dl Cream
10 g Vanilla sugar
4 Eggs
120 g Sugar
1 pn Salt
Icing sugar

(Units: 1000 g = 36 oz., 1 oz = 28 g, 1 in = 25.4 mm, 1 dl = 3.5 fl oz)

Wash the apricots, cut into halves and remove stones.

Arrange the apricot halves, skin uppermost, in a gratin dish in 2 layers,
sprinkling some sugar between the layers.

Mix the eggs, sugar, salt, vanilla sugar and cream together.

Cover the apricots with this mixture.

Bake in a bain-marie for 30-40 minutes at 180 oC.

Dust with icing sugar and serve from the dish.

Note : Serve hot or cold with a little whipped cream.

Culinary Art and Traditions of Switzerland, Pro Gastronomia, 1992

Typed for you by Rene Gagnaux @ 2:301/212.19

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