FEATURE RECIPE
Tender tart

Tender Tart

This recipe comes from the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook.

Serves 4

Cooking Time Prep time 20 mins, cook 30 mins (plus resting)



240 gm   plain flour
180 gm   unsalted butter, chilled, coarsely chopped
3   eggs
220 gm (1 cup)   white sugar
160 gm (1 cup)   hazelnuts, roasted, peeled and coarsely chopped
To serve:   sheep’s milk yoghurt


1 Combine flour and butter in a bowl and, using your fingertips, rub in butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Add 1 egg yolk (reserving eggwhite) and 1-2 tbsp of cold water and mix to just combine, then turn onto a lightly floured work surface and knead lightly until smooth. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour to rest.
2 Preheat oven to 180C. Roll out pastry on a lightly floured surface to 3mm-4mm thick and line a 24cm-diameter loose-bottomed fluted tart pan, trimming edges and reserving scraps. Refrigerate scraps and tart for 30 minutes.
3 Combine remaining eggs and sugar in a bowl and stir to combine. Stir in hazelnuts, then spoon into tart case (there may be some filling leftover). Roll out pastry scraps on a lightly floured surface to 3mm-4mm thick, cut into 2cm-wide strips and arrange in a lattice pattern over filling. Brush with lightly beaten reserved eggwhite and bake until golden (about 30 minutes). Serve immediately or at room temperature with sheep’s milk yoghurt.


Drink Suggestion Sauternes.

RECIPE Hugh Wennerbom PHOTOGRAPHY William Meppem STYLING Emma Knowles DRINK SUGGESTION Max Allen


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