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Desserts · South Africa

Melktert

A milk tart with cinnamon: a barely-egged custard filling in a shortcrust base.

◷ 80 minutes♧ 10 servingsSave as cookbook PDF ↓
Melktert

Ingredients

For 10 servings · tick what is ready

Use the scaled ingredient list. Steps and temperatures stay unchanged; use a larger pan or dish if needed. Seasonings to taste stay to taste.

LET’S COOK

How to make it

01

Rub the flour with the cold butter, a spoon of sugar and an egg into a dough and chill it half an hour.

02

Line a tin with the pastry and blind-bake it at 180 °C for fifteen minutes, to a pale gold.

03

Heat the milk with the cinnamon stick until hot and leave it to infuse ten minutes.

04

Whisk the remaining eggs with the sugar, flour, cornflour, vanilla and salt until smooth.

05

Pour in the hot milk in a thin stream, whisking constantly, and return it to the heat.

06

Cook over medium heat for eight minutes, until the filling thickens to the body of double cream.

07

Pour the filling into the base, chill it three hours and dust it with ground cinnamon before serving.

About this recipe

By UniTools · Source: UniTools — theunitools.com. Recipe content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photo: Luca Nebuloni · CC BY 2.0