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Milk Tart/Meltert - Easy, Rich and Creamy - Perfect entertaining pie with an easy press-on pastry crust. It doesn't take much to make this delicious, perfect-for-entertaining tart. Melkterts, roughly translated into milk tarts from Afrikaans, is a South African treat mostly consisting of a pastry stuffed with a creamy filling made from milk, sugar, flour, and eggs. "My 'ouma' South African grandmother's legendary milk tart. The recipe is a real winner.

Milk tart is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Milk tart is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have milk tart using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Milk tart:

1. Make ready Crust
2. Get 60 g butter, melted
3. Get 1 egg
4. Prepare 15 ml water
5. Take 125 g flour
6. Make ready 5 ml baking powder
7. Make ready Pinch salt
8. Take Filling
9. Prepare 60 g butter, melted
10. Prepare 45 g flour
11. Get 5 ml custard powder
12. Take Pinch salt
13. Take 250 ml milk
14. Take 125 ml sugar
15. Take 2 eggs, separated
16. Prepare Garnish
17. Get As needed cinnamon, ground

Subject to personal taste, this is in my opinion the original South African Milk tart. (Melktert) Baked crust and a filling that does not require baking. I always thought milk tart was one of those South African dishes that was difficult to make. See recipes for South African milk tart too. South African Milk Tart [Vegan, Gluten-Free].

Instructions to make Milk tart:

1. For crust: In a bowl mix together melted butter, egg and water. Add flour, baking powder and salt. Mix together to make soft dough.
2. Press in tart tin about 0.5cm thick. Bake in 180°C preheated oven for 10 minutes.
3. For filling: Bring milk and sugar to a boil in a pot.
4. Whisk melted butter, flour, egg yolk, salt and custard powder to make flour paste
5. Add ¹⁄₃ of hot milk to flour paste and whisk to avoid lumps.
6. Return to heat and whisk continuously till it thickens. Remove from heat when it is thick.
7. In a separate bowl whisk egg whites to soft peak. Fold egg whites into custard.
8. Pour custard into tart shell and bake for 20-30 minutes until set in preheated 180°C oven
9. Let cool completely and dust with ground cinnamon. Enjoy with tea

See recipes for South African milk tart too. South African Milk Tart [Vegan, Gluten-Free]. This milk tart is a traditional South African comfort food and is usually served chilled as a dessert or afternoon tea treat. Milk Tart (also known as Melktert) is a traditional South African dessert. The crust is a soft, cakey crust topped with a cinnamon infused milk custard.

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