Milk Tart (or Custard Pie)

- from Granny Trollope


Pastry:

INGREDIENTS

• 2 Cups Flour
• 2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
• 1 Egg
• 1/2 Cup Sugar
• 125g Butter
• Salt

METHOD

1. Cream butter and sugar
2. Add egg, then dry ingredients
3. Form soft dough
4. Press into plates and bake at 180oC for 15 minutes

Filling:

INGREDIENTS

• 5 Cups Milk
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 1 Tablespoon Butter
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
• Cinnamon Sticks - Boil
• 3 Eggs
• 3 Tablespoon Corn Starch
• 3 Tablespoon Flour

METHOD

1st Method

1. Boil milk (leave a little for flour mix), sugar, butter, vanilla and cinnamon together
2. Thicken with corn starch and flour mixed with milk
3. Remove from heat and mix with 3 eggs (pour milk into beaten eggs slowly while whisking fast)
4. Pour into shells and bake (15-20 minutes)
5. Refrigerate until required and sprinkle with cinnamon to serve