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How to make a classic milk tart
How to make a classic milk tart
The South African Milk Tart is such a well loved traditional South African dessert that there is even a National Milk Tart day.
Yes, that’s really a thing in South Africa because we really love our old fashioned milk tart or ‘melktert’.
Whether you know it as old fashioned custard pie, South African custard tart, egg custard tart or egg custard pie, melktert recipes in each family are often strictly guarded and handed down from generation to generation.
Here’s the best recipe to make your milk tart at home
Ingredients
Base
ready made puff-pastry
1 egg white
Filling
2 cup milk
1 cinnamon stick
2 eggs-separated
1/2 cup sugar
60ml cake flour
30ml corn flour
30ml custard powder
1pinch salt
2tbsp butter
1tsp vanilla paste
1/4tsp Robertson’s cream of tartar ground cinnamon – for dusting
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