Traditional South African Dessert: Milk Tart !!
A real South African favourite
Posted by Tara Gypsy Apples
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You will find milk tart (Melktert in Afrikaans) at every bake sale, fete, market, church fair, home industries and at any afternoon tea party and family gatherings.
It's a well loved dessert and is easy to make and delicious to eat!
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You Will Need (8 things)
- Butter
- Eggs
- Milk
- Cake Flour
- Sugar
- Vanilla Essence
- Corn Flour
- Baking Powder
Steps (16 steps, 90 minutes)
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1
Gather all your ingredients to make the base
62ml sugar
250ml cake flour
62ml butter
1 egg
5ml baking powder
2,5ml vanilla essence -
2
Get the egg and vanilla essence ready
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3
Sift all the dry ingredients together
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4
Melt the butter and sugar together
Take it off the heat
Add the egg and vanilla - stir quickly to combine so you don't end up with scrambled eggs -
5
Add the sifted dry ingredients
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6
You should end up with a soft dough
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7
Press the dough into an oven safe pie dish and bake for 10 minutes at 180C
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8
Gather the ingredients to make the filling
(this is enough for 2 tarts)1 litre milk
25ml butter
250ml sugar
50ml cake flour
50ml corn flour
salt
4 eggs, seperated
10ml vanilla essence -
9
Mix a small amount of the milk with the flour, corn flour and egg yolks
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10
Heat the sugar, milk and butter.
Slowly add the boiling milk to the egg/flour mixture -
11
Return the combined mixtures to the stove and stir continuously until thickened
Add vanilla essence -
12
Stiffly beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt
Fold into the thickened milk mixture -
13
Pour into the pie crust
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14
As an alternative to the traditional pie crust, you can make a biscuit base by combining crushed biscuits with melted butter
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15
Sprinkle with cinnamon
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16
Invite your friends over for tea and use the word" LEKKER" a lot (South African for very/good/delicious)
ie. that melktert was lekker!
I'm lekker full!pronounced: la-ker (roll your 'r')
Enjoy :)