https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/traditional-south-african-dessert-milk-tart • Posted by Tara Gypsy Apples
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!
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!
Gather all your ingredients to make the base 62ml sugar 250ml cake flour 62ml butter 1 egg 5ml baking powder 2,5ml vanilla essence
Get the egg and vanilla essence ready
Sift all the dry ingredients together
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
Add the sifted dry ingredients
You should end up with a soft dough
Press the dough into an oven safe pie dish and bake for 10 minutes at 180C
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
Mix a small amount of the milk with the flour, corn flour and egg yolks
Heat the sugar, milk and butter. Slowly add the boiling milk to the egg/flour mixture
Return the combined mixtures to the stove and stir continuously until thickened Add vanilla essence
Stiffly beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt Fold into the thickened milk mixture
Pour into the pie crust
As an alternative to the traditional pie crust, you can make a biscuit base by combining crushed biscuits with melted butter
Sprinkle with cinnamon
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 :)