Grandmas Milk Tart Recipe
A favourite South African Classic dating back to the Voortrekker days
If you dont want to make the pastry use frozen puff pastry.
This recipes comes from Bits of Carey
Ingredients
- Pastry
- 2 Tbs Butter not Margarine
- 2 Tbs sugar
- 1 egg
- ¾ cup self raising flour
- Pinch of salt
- FILLING
- 2 cups milk
- 2 eggs separated
- ½ cup of sugar
- ½ cup cake flour
- ¼ cup corn flour
- Pinch salt
- 2 Tbs butter
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Ground cinnamon
Directions
- PASTRY
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius.
- Blitz all the ingredients together in a food processor or with an electric beater until it all clumps together to form a dough.
- Press into a lightly greased 24 cm tart dish. Chill in the fridge while preparing the filling.
- FILLING
- Heat the milk in a medium pot(do not boil).
- Beat the yolks and sugar until creamy and light then add the flours and salt - the mixture will be quite thick.
- Add some warm milk to the egg mixture and then return all of it to the pot.
- Bring to the boil and whisk constantly until thickened.
- Remove from the heat and whisk in the butter and vanilla.
- Whisk the egg whites in a clean bowl until soft peaks form and fold into the custard.
- Pour into the chilled pastry case and sprinkle with cinnamon.
- Bake for +- 30 minutes.
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Nutrition Facts
| Amount Per Serving | %DV |
|---|---|
| Serving Size 127g | |
| Recipe makes 8 servings | |
| Calories 254 | |
| Calories from Fat 73 | 29% |
| Total Fat 8.15g | 10% |
| Saturated Fat 3.85g | 15% |
| Trans Fat 0.0g | |
| Cholesterol 90mg | 30% |
| Sodium 284mg | 12% |
| Potassium 155mg | 4% |
| Total Carbs 38.48g | 10% |
| Dietary Fiber 0.5g | 2% |
| Sugars 19.32g | 13% |
| Protein 7.08g | 11% |
