Old-Fashioned Strawberry Tart

Name: Old-Fashioned Strawberry Tart
Yield: One 9- to 10-inch tart, 8 to 10 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ¼ cup sugar; 1 cup milk; 1 recipe Sweet Tart Dough; ½ cup (2 ounces) toasted sliced almonds; Confectioners’ sugar for sprinkling; 2 tablespoons kirsch; 2 to 3 pints strawberries; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 cup strawberry preserves; 3 egg yolks; 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

Preparation info

One 9- to 10 inch tart,
8 to 10
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to Bake

By Nick Malgieri

Published 1995

About

If you can get fresh, locally grown strawberries in season where you live, be sure to make this tart. Although it can be prepared at any time of the year with shipped-in berries, it is best when the strawberries are at their best.

Ingredients

1 recipe Sweet Tart Dough

Americas
United States
Preserve
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Prepare and chill the dough.
To make the pastry cream, combine the milk and half the sugar in a saucepan over low heat. Whisk the yolks with the remaining sugar, sift the flour over the yolks, and whisk them together. Beat one third of the boiling milk into the yolk mixture and return the remaining milk to a boil. Beat the yolk mixture back into the boiling mil