Recipe - Melktert

PASTRY
4 ounce Flour
2 teaspoon Baking powder
2 ounce Butter
2 Egg yolks
1 pn Salt

FILLING
1 pt Milk
8 ounce Sugar
2 tablespoon Cornflour
3 Egg whites
1 ounce Butter
Cinnamon and sugar

Rub butter into sifted flour, baking powder and salt. Add egg yolks and
enough milk to make a stiff dough. Roll out thinly and line one large or
two small cake pans.

To make filling, dissolve cornflour in a little of the milk and boil the
remaining milk together with the sugar. Pour milk/sugar onto the cornflour
mixture and cook for 3 minutes, stirring all the time. Stir in the butter.

Cool slightly then fold the stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour the mixture
into lined cake pans, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, and bake in a 400
degree oven for about 10 minutes.

Posted to FOODWINE Digest 25 Jan 97 by jeff@rtech (Jeff Lichtman) on 86" ,
1986 .RZ .