1602 R. Marbecke 10 A good fat pastie of Venison, must haue no longer a time, either of baking, or of soaking, then an apple Tart.
1774 J. Burgoyne i. i. 4 A lamp-lighter spilt a gallon of oil into a cream'd apple-tart.
1846 E. Farnham 134 Sidney..had been initiated into the mysteries of pound-cake, jumbles, and apple-tarts.
2004 Apr. 284/2 (caption) This is the pan for tarte Tatin, the famous French upside-down apple tart.