sheilar@aipna.ed.ac.uk (01/23/91)
This is in response to a request for a recipe for Egg Custard Tart - I think this might do the job. It is something that I know as Milktart Pastry : 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 egg (take 1 egg, beat it up a bit and then use half of this) 2 oz butter 1/4 cup sugar salt Beat together butter & sugar. Add egg, and then add in dry ingredients. You should get a crumbly mix. Press this into a pie dish and bake at 350F for 20 minutes. Filling : 1 1/2 eggs (you use the other half of the egg that contributed to the pastry) 1 1/4 tablespoons flour 1 1/4 tablespoons corn flour 2 1/4 cups milk 1 tsp vanilla flavouring 1 tsp butter Boil the milk. Beat the egg and sugar. Add the flour & corn flour to the egg/sugar mixture and beat this together. Add the milk and cook till it thickens. (This works well in a microwave oven). Remove from heat and add vanilla & butter. Beat well, and pour into the baked shell. Sprinkle with cinnamon, and cool. (This is best refrigerated.)