Apricot Flan (Valais)

750 g Apricots; ripe

- fresh or frozen 1 1/2 dl Cream

10 g Vanilla sugar

4 Eggs

120 g Sugar

1 pn Salt

Icing sugar (Units: 1000 g = 36 oz., 1 oz = 28 g, 1 in = 25.4 mm, 1 dl = 3.5 fl oz) Wash the apricots, cut into halves and remove stones. Arrange the apricot halves, skin uppermost, in a gratin dish in 2 layers, sprinkling some sugar between the layers. Mix the eggs, sugar, salt, vanilla sugar and cream together. Cover the apricots with this mixture. Bake in a bain-marie for 30-40 minutes at 180 oC. Dust with icing sugar and serve from the dish. Note : Serve hot or cold with a little whipped cream. Culinary Art and Traditions of Switzerland, Pro Gastronomia, 1992 Typed for you by Rene Gagnaux @ 2:301/212.19