Old-Fashioned Raspberry Tart
- 1 recipe Sweet Pastry Dough
- 1 cup fat-free milk
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- Three 1/2-pint baskets fresh raspberries, picked over but not washed (see Note)
- 2 tablespoons confectioners sugar for dusting the top of the tart
- One 9- or 10-inch fluted tart pan with removable bottom
- Unwrap the dough and place it on a floured work surface.
- Knead it lightly to soften it slightly, then form it into a disk.
- Flour the dough and roll it to an 11- to 12-inch disk.
- Fold the dough in half and transfer it to the pan, lining up the fold with the diameter of the pan.
- Unfold the dough into the pan and press it well into the bottom and sides.
- Sever the excess dough at the rim of the pan with a bench scraper or the back of a paring knife.
- Refrigerate the tart crust until you are ready to bake it.
- For the pastry cream filling, combine the milk and half the sugar in a small nonreactive saucepan.
- Bring to a boil over low heat.
- Combine the remaining sugar and the flour in a small mixing bowl and whisk well to mix.
- Whisk in the eggs, one at a time.
- When the milk boils, whisk about a third of it into the egg mixture.
- Return the remaining milk to a boil over low heat and add in the egg mixture in a stream, whisking constantly until the pastry cream thickens and comes to a boillarge bubbles will burst slowly on the surface.
- Cook, whisking constantly, for about 20 seconds.
- Off the heat whisk in the vanilla and butter.
- Scrape the pastry cream into a glass or stainless steel bowl and press plastic wrap directly against the surface.
- Refrigerate the pastry cream until it is time to assemble the tart.
- To bake the tart shell, set a rack in the middle level of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees.
- Remove the unbaked tart crust from the refrigerator and pierce it all over at 1/2-inch intervals with the tines of a fork.
- Bake the crust for about 15 minutes, or until it is a very light golden color.
- If you bake the crust too long, it will be very hard.
- Cool the baked crust on a rack.
- When you are ready to assemble the tart, spread the chilled pastry cream on the bottom of the tart crust, using a small metal offset spatula.
- Arrange the raspberries on the pastry cream (I just pile them on every which way rather than making straight rows).
- Unmold the tart.
- Right before serving, dust with all the confectioners sugar.
- Serving: This beautiful tart needs no further adornment.
recipe sweet pastry dough, milk, sugar, allpurpose, eggs, vanilla, unsalted butter, three, confectioners sugar
Taken from www.cookstr.com/recipes/old-fashioned-raspberry-tart (may not work)