Flan Normand is a flaky pastry-based (pâte-sablée) variant of the apple tart made in Normandy which is essentially a creamy egg custard tart topped with apples, sliced almonds and sugar and baked until the topping is slightly caramelised. It is also known as Normandy Tart or Tarte Normande Normandy is a geographical region in northern France. ... Custard is a sweet dessert made from a combination of milk or cream, egg yolks, corn starch, sugar and flavourings such as vanilla. ... Strawberry and marscapone cream tart A tart is a pastry dessert, similar to a pie, but different in that the top is open and not covered with pastry. ... hi pat what is up ... This article refers to the plant. ... Caramel is a food which has a brown color and a pleasant toasted flavor, derived from the caramelization of sugar. ...

This is a dish made in one of two sizes, one of which is just under one third of a metre (approximately one foot) in diameter, and a smaller variety, between a half and one third the diameter of the larger type.

The key difference from other similar tartes are that other egg-custard tarts (a dish common in the United Kingdom) do not have the apple and almond topping (and tend to be made with a short crust pastry). Shortcrust pastry is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart or a pie. ...

Another classic egg custard dish, crème brûlée tends to be prepred and served in a ramekin without any pastry or fruit topping and is given a fully caramelised top (by grilling a sugar topping until it is a hard, solid glaze). Crème brûlée (French, burnt cream, pronounced (IPA) in English; in French) is a dessert consisting of a custard-like base whose sugar topping has been burnt into a hard caramelized layer. ...

Other apple tarts that probably originate in Normandy include a variety which, instead of egg-custard, has a layer of almond paste, or almond and apple paste, or frangipane almond pastry all topped with a pattern of semi-circular apple slices (some are decorated with a pastry lattice and most are made with short crust pastry).

In the UK, the French boulangerie chain Paul (www.paul.fr) sells Flan Normand (only in the larger size in the UK) under this product name (and with apparently close adherence to the tradional 19th century recipe, where the topping and overall appearance is 'rustic') but many UK supermarkets (including Tesco) sell product with labelling entitled 'French Apple Tart' with no precise details provided concerning the regional source or historic provenance of the recipe, which in the case of the supermaket products is typically of the 'apple and almond paste below apple slices' variety, without any egg-custard or semi-caramelisation. Bakery foods A baker is someone who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar foods. ... Paul is a popular Christian name, meaning small. It is taken from Latin. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... The recipes are currently being moved to Wikibooks. ... Historic The first self service Tesco, which is in in St Albans Tesco PLC is a United Kingdom based international supermarket chain. ...