Name: Greengage & vanilla tart
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 375g pack dessert pastry; 450g greengage halved and stoned; 3 tbsp caster sugar; 2 medium eggs; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 142ml pot single cream; icing sugar for dusting

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Greengage & vanilla tart

Greengage & vanilla tart

Mary Cadogan

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Serves 8

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Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 50 mins - 55 mins

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Greengages have the perfect combination of sweetness and acidity that you need for a fruit tart, plus a great dramatic colour

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Ingredients

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375g pack dessert pastry
450g greengage

halved and stoned
3 tbsp caster sugar
2 medium eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
142ml pot single cream
icing sugar

for dusting

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal327
fat20g
saturates8g
carbs35g
sugars18g
fibre2g
protein5g
salt0.3g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Roll out the pastry and use to line a shallow, loose-bottomed flan tin, about 24cm across. Trim the edges of the pastry and line with baking paper and baking beans. Sit it on a baking sheet, bake for 15 mins, remove the paper and beans, then cook for 5 mins more until pale golden and biscuity. While the pastry cooks, put the greengages into a roasting tin, sprinkle with 1 tbsp sugar, then roast until just softened. Drain off any juices, then cool.
step 2

Arrange the greengages in the pastry case, cut-sides up. Now reduce the oven to 160C/ fan 140C/gas 3. Lightly whisk the eggs, then whisk in the vanilla, remaining sugar and cream. Carefully pour the egg mix around the greengages, then bake for 30 mins until the custard is set.
step 3

Cool the tart in the tin for 10 mins, then remove onto a plate and dust with icing sugar.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, September 2008

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