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An easy way to make the classic milk tart! Step by step, it’s not nearly as scary as it seems!
Ingredients
Pastry:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 egg
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 125g butter
- pinch of salt
Filling:
- 4 ½ cups milk
- 2 ½ tbsp cornflour
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- pinch of salt
- 2 ½ tbsp flour
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- a big spoon of butter
Instructions
Pastry:
- Cream butter and sugar well together and add the egg, before beating well.
- Add all other ingredients – making a stiff dough.
- Press into one or two round cake tins/pie dishes.
- Bake blind for 15 minutes at 180°C (use wax paper to cover the pastry and place dry beans/rice over the paper to weight the pastry down). Then remove the paper and beans/rice and bake for an additional 5 minutes until light brown.
Filling:
- Bring milk to a gentle boil.
- Beat eggs well and add sugar, flour, cornflour and salt.
- Mix well.
- Pour boiling milk into the mixture and stir well.
- Return to stove and stir for 10-12 minutes on medium heat until the mixture thickens.
- Add butter and vanilla essence and mix through, then pour into cooked shell.
- Allow to cool in the fridge (you do not need to cook the tart any further)
- To decorate, sprinkle with cinnamon.
Notes
I used a 26cm diameter pie dish and I still had pastry left over.