Pear and Custard Tart
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 1 sour cream pie crust (in my recipes)
- 4 medium pears, peeled,cored and thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons chilled butter, cut into bits
- 2 tablespoons golden brown sugar
- 2⁄3 cup light cream
- 1 large egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 -5 drops almond extract
- ground nutmeg
- ground cinnamon
directions
- Roll pie crust disk out on lightly-floured work surface to 1/8 inch thick round.
- Roll dough up on rolling pin and transfer to 9 inch in diameter tart pan with removable bottom.
- Gently press into place.
- Trim and finish edges.
- Refrigerate 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Line pastry with foil and fill with pie weights or dry beans.
- Bake 15 minutes.
- Remove foil and weights and continue baking 10 more minutes.
- Cool.
- Arrange pears in pastry in concentric circles, overlapping slightly.
- Dot with butter; sprinkle with brown sugar; bake until pears are tender, about 20 minutes.
- Whisk light cream, egg, egg yolk, ¼ cup sugar and vanilla and almond extracts to blend.
- Pour over pears.
- Sprinkle lightly with ground nutmeg and cinnamon.
- Continue baking until custard is set, about 30 minutes.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.