Apple and Prune Tart with Vanilla Ice Cream and Cognac

Ingredients

• ¼ cup solid vegetable shortening
• 1 ¼ cups all purpose flour
• ¼ cup apricot preserves
• 12 medium pitted prunes
• ¼ cup unsalted butter
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
• Vanilla ice cream
• + 6 more ingredients
• • 3 tablespoons water
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon sugar
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 4 6- to 7-ounce Golden Delicious apples
  • ¹/₃ cup Cognac or brandy

Blend flour, sugar and salt in processor. Add shortening and butter and blend, using on/off turns, until coarse meal forms. Add 3 tablespoons ice water. Blend, using on/off turns, until moist clumps form, adding more water by 1/2 tablespoonfuls if dry. Gather dough into ball; flatten into disk. W...

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