Rijstevlaai ~ tarte au riz

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    large tart
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Dark Rye and Honey Cake: Festival baking from the heart of the Low Countries

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2023

  • About

Rijstevlaai, tarte au riz, blanke Doreye or tarte blanche in Wallonia, from Liége, is a vlaai filled with rice pudding. In Verviers in Wallonia the tart is preserved by the Seigneurie de la Vèrvî-riz.

There are first references to this tart in a cookbook from 1604: Lancelot de Casteau, master cook of three Prince-Bishops of Liège, published an ancestor of the rice tart in his Ouverture de Cuisine. While today the rice pie is always flavoured with v