Apple Tarts

Ingredients:

• Pare, quarter, core and boil in half a cup of water, ten large, tart apples until quite soft. When cooked, beat until very smooth.
• Add the yolks of three eggs, and three whole ones, the juice and grated outside rind of two lemons, half a cap of butter; one and a half cup of sugar (or more, if not sufficiently sweet); beat all thoroughly.
  
• Line patty-pans with a puff paste and fill;
  
• Bake 5 to 6 minutes in a hot oven.

Meringue:

If you want to decorate them very nice, cover them when removed from the oven with the Meringue made of the whites of three eggs remaining, mixed with three tablespoons of sugar.

After decorated with meringue, return tarts to the oven and delicately brown.