French pear tart

A very simple tart for an evening tea. Pears can be swapped for apples. For a savoury-sweet version, add blue cheese, honey, thyme and nuts to the pears and leave out the cinnamon.

Ingredients

• puff pastry (unleavened) — 2 sheets
• pears — 2
• apricot jam — 50 g
• cane sugar or honey — 30 g
• cinnamon — 2 tsp
• butter — 30 g
• walnuts or hazelnuts — 30 g

Method

1. Slice the pears thinly.
2. Lay the puff pastry on baking paper. Roll it out lightly. Score a border around the edge with a knife.
3. Thin the jam with a little hot boiled water. Spread it over the pastry in a thin layer.
4. Arrange the pear slices in overlapping rows.
5. Sprinkle with sugar or honey and cinnamon, dot with butter and scatter over the nuts.
6. Bake in an oven preheated to 180°C for 15 minutes.
7. Brush with a little more jam, raise the temperature to 200°C and bake for another 5 minutes.