Fine pastry with simple ingredients.
Preheat your oven to 350°
Spread your cup flour and pinch of salt on a large cutting board or clean countertop. Make a hollow in the middle of the flour.
Add softened butter and water into the hollow center of your flour.
Combine the water, softened butter and flour mixture, initially at the edges of your hollow. Kneed the dough until it is well incorporated.
Let sit in the refrigerator for about an hour.
Put your dough ball between two pieces of plastic wrap. Spread it out with you hands initially. Finally, use a roller to roll it thin.
Use an 8 or 9 inch pie dish. Remove one side of plastic wrap. Dough side down, drape the crust over the dish, and gently work it in. Remove the rest of your plastic wrap. Poke the dough with a fork a few times.
Bake at 350° for 15-20 mins.
Warm your milk in a saucepan, but do not boil (merely warm). Dissolve flour, sugar, and egg yolks into the milk. Use a whisk to help incorporate.
Cook over low heat, while stirring with a wooden spoon, until cream thickens. Do not allow the mixture to boil. Remove from heat. Add the butter in small pieces, and allow to cool.
Once the cream is cool, pour it slowly over the crust.
Peel and thinly slice your apples. Arrange in a radial flower pattern. Sprinkle with sugar.
Bake at 350° for 45 minutes.