Milk Tart – African Recipes

Recipe ingredients and directions:

MILK TART (MELKTERT) Pastry (South Africa)

1 cup flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 egg (take 1 egg, beat it up a bit and then use half of this)

2 oz butter

1/4 cup sugar salt

Beat together butter and sugar. Add egg, and then add in dry

ingredients. You should get a crumbly mix. Press this into a pie

dish and bake at 350F for 20 minutes.

Filling

1 1/2 eggs (use the other half of the egg that contributed to the pastry)

1 1/4 tablespoons flour

1 1/4 tablespoons cornflour

2 1/4 cups milk (this is 1 pint)

1 tsp vanilla flavouring

1 tsp butter

Boil the milk. In another bowl/pot (depending on whether you are

using a microwave or cooker), beat the egg and sugar. Add the flour

and cornflour to the egg/sugar mixture and beat this together. Add

the milk and cook till it thickens. (This works well in a microwave

oven). Remove from heat and add vanilla and butter. Beat well, and

pour into the baked shell. Sprinkle with cinnamon or nutmeg, and

cool. (This is best refrigerated.)

Category: African Recipes