Name: Alsatian Plum Tart
Ingredients: Beat 2 eggs with 60 g sugar. Stir in 60 ml each of milk and single cream and pour this over the plums. Bake the flan for 10 minutes at 170°C, then sprinkle with 50 g slivered almonds and cook for a further 5 minutes.; Halve and stone 400 g plums and fry them briefly in 30 g unsalted butter. Add 2 tbsp plum brandy or liqueur and ignite the alcohol. Once the flame has died, arrange the plums and their juices in the pastry case.

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Le Cordon Bleu Dessert Techniques

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 1999

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Combine custard with flambéed plums, pears, apples or berries in this open tart. Use Pâte Sucrée for the pastry, baked blind in a 23.5 cm flan tin at 170°C for 15 minutes.

Halve and stone 400 g plu

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