Normandy is home to apple groves. Norman pie is thus a type of  apple pie.

Make a batch of pie dough (see here)
You will have enough for two pies.

Ingredients:

• Apples. at least 6. more is good.
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 cup sugar + 2 tbsp sugar
• 4 eggs
• 3/4 cup ground almonds
• 2/3 cup all purpose flour
• 600 ml heavy whipping cream and milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Pre heat over at 325.

Peel and cut the apples in eight. put them in a pan with a bit of sugar and 2 tbsp of butter. Cook uncovered until the apples are soft and nicely colored.

In the meantime, in a mixing bowl, beat the eggs and the cup of sugar. Add the almond meal and flour and mix. pour in the vanilla extract. Finally add the cream and milk. a total of 600 ml but you can vary how much milk and cream. i usually do about 400 ml heavy whipping cream and 200 ml milk.

Put the apple pieces to cool in a plate.

Roll the pie dough into two pie pans. I use the shallow ones with a removable bottom.

Place the apple pieces in the pans. Then pour the filling on top.

Bake for 40 minutes at 325.

Some people add calvados (apple alcohol) but it’s very good without too, so don’t buy a bottle of calvados just for that, we know what happens to opened bottles…

This the the pie dough I use for my fruit pies.

Ingredients:

• 2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
• 2/3 cup unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• dash of salt

Pour the four and salt in a mixing bowl. Add in the sugar. do not mix.
Cut up the butter in small pieces and put on top of the sugar.
With your fingers or whole hands mix the sugar and butter. Then mix with the rest until it’s crumbly. Add the eggs and mix, knead a bit until it does not stick to your hands. Add a pinch of flour if it sticks a bit.
Split in two parts, Wrap in cling film or put in tupperware and let it rest in the fridge for a couple of hours.

Take it out of the fridge and microwave for 10-20 seconds. Roll to a couple of mm thick. You can transfer it to a pie pan. The dough can easily be patched if it does not come perfect the first time. Nobody will notice.

Fill the pie with desired filling and bake usually about 40 minutes at 325.

The history of financiers is full of poetry and uncertainty. Some claim that the name comes from the mold in the shape of a small gold bar, other that it was originally eaten by traders at the Paris stock exchange as a finger food.
Note that financiers are cake, not pastry.

It is thus best made in a financier mold, but you can do it in Madeleine pans too; they will disappear just as fast.

Ingredients

• 50 g. almond powder or almond meal (about 1/2 cup)
• 50 g. all purpose flour (between 1/3 and 1/2 a cup)
• 150 g granulated sugar ( 3/4 cup)
• 75 g butter (about 6.5 tbsp)
• 4 egg whites
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• a dash of salt.

preheat oven to 325

In another mixing bowl, put the dry ingredients (but the salt) and the vanilla.

Melt the butter in the microwave. 45 seconds should it. The official recipe calls for beurre noisette but with so much almond, i am not sure it will make any difference. if you insist on doing it right, put the butter in a saucepan and cook it on low to medium heat until about 1/4 of it evaporates. The milk solids will separate from the butter milk and sink to the bottom and start browning.

In a mixing bowl, beat the egg white and dash of salt to fairly hard peak.

Add the whipped egg whites to the dry ingredients and combine carefully.

Add the butter and combine.

Spoon into the molds.

bake for about 15 minutes and unmold. Let them cool upside down so they can dry out a bit.