Les Desserts

Desserts

Appears in
French Brasserie Cookbook
French Brasserie Cookbook

By Daniel Galmiche

Published 2011

  • About
My grandparents’ orchard produced so much fruit that Grand-Père had to think up ingenious ways to store it. I used to pick the fruit (though more went in my mouth than in my basket), and Grand-Père wove the baskets himself and filled them with juicy apples, layered with hay. He then stored them in the attic, and when that was full, he put them in the cellar. They kept beautifully right through to the spring, enabling us to make wonderful desserts such as Maman’s Apple Tart. The next problem was where to put the apricots, pears, cherries, redcurrants, blackcurrants … Apricot Tart and Summer Fruit Tart with Lime are delicious examples of how we enjoyed them.