berry tarte
From axisofevelyn 15 years agoIngredients
- Pastry shopping list
- 2 cups all purpose flour shopping list
- 1/4 cup sugar shopping list
- 1 tsp salt shopping list
- 1/2 cup unsalted cold butter (1 stick) cut lengthwise into four logs then into squares from the logs shopping list
- 2 tablespoons shortening vegetable or otherwise shopping list
- small bowl of ice water close by shopping list
- Filling 1/3 cup heavy cream shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- 1/4 cup sugar shopping list
- 2 tsp vanilla extract shopping list
- 1 quart of berries (blue berries, raspberries, cherries, mixed berries... your choice) to top the tarte. (I like the very cherry berry blend of frozen berries from Trader Joes but I also use the canned sour cherries from our garden or fresh berries from the market... your call. shopping list
How to make it
- For Pastry:
- Sift flour sugar and salt into medium/large mixing bowl
- Add butter & shortening and work into mixture with your hands until it's mealy. ( I sometimes use rubber gloves because I don't always have running water nearby ).
- Toss with a fork and sprinkle just enough ice water into the mixture so you are able to form a ball. Briefly work into ball and ( using a plastic bag like the ones you fill with vegetables @ the market ) place dough inside bag, tie it up and place in the refrigerator for one hour.
- Wait about half an hour and preheat oven to 325
- Butter 10" tart pan or pie plate if you don't have the first
- Preparing Custard:
- Combine all filling ingredients except the for the berries in a bowl.
- Whisk till blended and set aside.
- Roll out chilled pastry to approximately to about 1/8" thick ( I also take a plastic bag and place over the dough while rolling out to manage the crumbly consistency with a little less of a hassle).
- Press dough onto the buttered pan, trim the top off the pastry. A little pastry over the edge is not a problem just keep it consistent at the edge
- Prick the pastry around bottom of pan with a fork
- Bake for ten (10) minutes and remove from oven
- Pour custard into shell and then arrange the berries as neatly or freely as you wish, it's your tarte. I recommend the berries lay out in one layer.
- Bake for thirty (30) minutes or until the toothpick remains clean when pricking the custard.
- Let cool for fifteen or twenty minutes.... mmmmmmmmm
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I buy those same berries at Trader Joe's, too! Lovely tart recipe. Helene
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