Pear Tart

Ingredients

• 1 cup (225 ml) flour
• 1/2 cup (125 ml) stick frozen butter
• 3 tbsp (45 ml) cold water
• 1/4 tsp (1 ml) salt
• 3/4 cup (175 ml) sugar
• 1/2 stick butter, at room temperature
• 1/4 cup (60 ml) flour
• 1/3 cup (80 ml) almonds, blanched or not
• 2 eggs, at room temperature
• 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla
• 1-1/2 large sized can of pears
• 3 lbs (1.4 kg). approximately of fresh barely ripe bosc or bartletts pears, peeled, cored and rubbed with lemon