The Commonplace Boke of Lady Avelyn Grene

Apple Tart

Recipe by Kristen Sullivan

This pie is a wonderful combination of apples and cheese.

4-5 medium apples
2 cups semi-soft cheese, grated (8oz Muenster works really well)
2 eggs
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp cloves
Butter or lard
Pie Shell

Peel and grate apples.� Fry grated apple in butter Mix all ingredients together, and put mixture into pie crust and bake at 350 for 45-50 minutes.

Source [Das Kuchbuch der Sabina Welserin, Thomas Gloning (ed.)]:<<177>> Ain tortta von epffel z� machen. Nempt epffel, schelts vnnd stosts ain ribeissen, darnach rests jm schmaltz/ dan thiet daran so�il geriben kes� als epfel, ain wenig gestossen negelen, ain wenig jmber vnnd zimerrerlach, zway air, riert es woll d�rchainander, dan mach den taig wie z� ainem fladen, th�t ain knepflin schmaltz darein, damit es s? nit anlaff, vnnd vnnden vnnd oben ain wenig gl�t, las� gemach bachen.

Source [Das Kuchbuch der Sabina Welserin, Valoise Armstrong (trans.)]:177 To make an apple tart. Take apples, peel them and grate them with a grater, afterwards fry them in fat. Then put in it as much grated cheese as apples, some ground cloves, a little ginger and cinnamon, two eggs. Stir it together well. Then prepare the dough as for a flat cake, put a small piece of fat into it so that it does not rise, and from above and below, weak heat. Let it bake slowly.