3 french apple custard Recipes

short pastry , for a 10 inch tart pan (pate brisee), firm granny smith apples, sugar , plus, sugar, ground cinnamon, egg, granulated sugar, flour, whipping cream, cognac or 3 tbsp brandy or 3 tbsp calvados, icing sugar

unsalted butter, baking apples , such as pink lady peeled, cored, and thinly sliced (4-6 apples) or 2 lbs honeycrisp apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced (4-6 apples), sugar, dark rum (optional), table salt, divided, eggs, egg yolks, heavy cream, sugar, vanilla extract, ground nutmeg, pie shell (placed in glass pie plate), sliced almonds, sugar, unsalted butter, softened, table salt