Tarte Tatin and Hotel Tatin in France and England

 Tarte Tatin is named after the Tatin sisters who ran a hotel with a restaurant in France. The hotel is still there. You can stay in the hotel. Eat Tart Tatin.  A side trip from Paris. 

You can read a book about the Tatin sisters. And find dozens of variations of the supposed recipe, which they never wrote down.

My family tried out a version. You make pastry and add apples and flavours. Oddly, you don't use cooking apples

Home cooked Tarte Tatin by Trevor Sharot. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

 because they disintegrate into a mush. The apples to use are eating apples which hold their shape. 


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