April 2-3, 2011: Peaches & Cream Tart

back inwards January, this recipe for a peaches as well as cream tart alongside a crispy burnt carbohydrate topping.  Apr seemed the correct fourth dimension to endeavor it, alongside peaches withal available at the markets but the weather condition having cooled downwards to something a flake to a greater extent than oven-friendly.

With Jane crediting the recipe to Stephanie Alexander I figured I'd start my shortcrust recipe Stephanie-style too, finding this recipe over at cuisine.com.au.  Then I started cheating.  No marble pastry slab, lightly rubbed butter, wells or pastry scrapers hither - I build my shortcrust inwards the nutrient processor.  And I got a fiddling creative alongside the fat.  When my butter ran out, I began substituting margarine.  When my margarine ran out, I substituted sour cream.  I actually had no work organisation succeeding at all yet succeed, I did.

The peaches were a flake of a jeopardy likewise - stone hard, to start.  But they softened correct downwards spell baking inwards that custard, to the request that 1 pie-eater asked if I'd used canned peaches.  Even so, baking was the flake I struggled alongside most.  While the master recipe hinted that this would live done inwards twenty minutes, my pie withal wasn't laid upwardly subsequently double that time.  By thus I had somewhere to be thus I covered it alongside foil, turned off the oven as well as hoped against promise that it'd laid upwardly inwards the ambient heat.  It did, though it was good beyond 'beginning to brown' yesteryear then.

Of course, the close of import instant of all was the blow-torching.  And that turned out pretty good firstly fourth dimension round, when Michael as well as I tested the pie out 'round midnight.  Then subsequently about fourth dimension inwards the refrigerator the carbohydrate melted as well as my blow-torch couldn't revive it.  That didn't diminish the pie's lure substantially - it was gone inwards less than 24 hours.

This recipe is clearly non vegan but I reckon y'all could cause got only every bit much deliciousness without the lacto-ovo.  Use whatever shortcrust recipe industrial plant for you, as well as laid upwardly those peaches together alongside brandy-spiked soy custard.  I've got to acknowledge that the sour cream didn't create anything especial for me at all.

Peaches & cream tart
(adapted from recipes at Have bamix volition travel, both of which are attributed to Stephanie Alexander)

shortcrust pastry
240g apparently flour
50g butter
55g margarine
75g sour cream
2 tablespoons mutual depression temperature water
1 egg white, lightly beaten

filling
iii large peaches
iii egg yolks
1/2 loving cup castor sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 tablespoon brandy
1 loving cup sour cream
1 tablespoon cornflour
2 tablespoons dark-brown sugar

In a nutrient processor, blend together the flour, butter, margarine as well as sour cream to damp crumbs. Gradually add together the H2O alongside the blades withal running, until the pastry comes together inwards a ball. Wrap the dough inwards plastic wind as well as refrigerate it for at to the lowest degree one-half an hour.

Preheat an oven to 200°C. Roll out the dough betwixt 2 pieces of plastic wind thus gently transfer it to a pie dish, removing the plastic wind every bit y'all go. Blind bake the pastry for twenty minutes, thus take away the weight as well as brush the pastry representative alongside egg white, baking it for a farther five minutes. Allow the pastry to cool as well as trim the oven temperature to 180°C.

Peel the peaches piece them into crescents.  Arrange the slices inwards the pastry case.

In a medium-sized bowl alongside an electrical mixer, crunch together the egg yolks as well as castor sugar.  Add the vanilla, brandy, cornflour as well as sour cream inwards plow until thoroughly combined.  Pour the cream mixture carefully into the pastry case.  Bake the tart until the custard is laid upwardly as well as starting fourth dimension to dark-brown - this could accept upwardly to xl minutes.

Sprinkle the exceed of the tart alongside dark-brown carbohydrate as well as purpose a blow-torch to caramelise it.  Slice upwardly as well as serve.