Fruit pies and tarts
Fruit pies and tarts can be made with sweet versions of
– yeast pastry,
– short crust pastry,
– puff pastry,
or a cake mix.
Short crust pastry and puff pastry are extremely fatty, so you need not grease the tin before baking.
Puff pastry is a lot of work, and you can buy excellent puff pastry, even whole wheat puff pastry, at the store.
Make sure that the puff pastry is made with butter not with any other fats.
The fruit can also be arranged on a sponge base or a base made of crushed biscuits.
CAKE MIX
SPONGE FLAN BASE
CRUSHED COOKIES
The kind of kind of fruit that is used deterrmines to a certain extent the pastry that serves as a base.
The apple is probably the most common fruit in Luxembourg. For baking slightly acidic varieties such as Boscop are preferable.
Fresh damson and mirabelle plums are typical for the region, but they are only available over a limited period of time in the year.
Strawberries are delicious on a pie or tart, however they are too delicate to be baked. They can be put on a base which has already been baked.
Tinned or canned fruit have already been heated. They need no further baking and can be used in the same way as strawberries.
Rhubarb is a vegetable, which is often put to the same culinary uses as fruits.
APPLES
DAMSON PLUMS
MIRABELLE PLUMS
STRAWBERRIES
TINNED OR CANNED FRUIT
RHUBARB
FRUIT TART WITH BAKED FRUIT AND EGGFLAN
INGREDIENTS
Pastry
Fruit: apples, tinned apricots, mirabelles, rhubarb
For the flan:
2-3 eggs
about 250ml cream
50 -75g sugar
vanilla essence or vanilla sugar
METHOD
Preheat the oven.
Grease a baking tin if necessary.
Line the baking tin with the pastry.
Prepare the fruit: peel the apples, pit the mirabelles etc. .
Put the fruit on the pastry.
Bake for about 10 minutes.
Mix the eggs with cream, sugar and vanilla essence.
Pour over the apples.
Bake for another 15-20 minutes.
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About me
I am Romy Schmit and I am currently working at ENAD, a governmental school for young adults
