CUSTARD TARTS (LINSER)

Ingredients:

Flour – 175 gms

Butter – 100 gms

Castor sugar – 150 gms

Egg yolks – 2

For the custard:

Milk – 350 ml

Sugar- 2 tbsp

Flour – 2 tbsp

Eggs – 2

Egg yolk – 1

Vanilla essence- 4 drops

Method:

• Sieve the flour and work in the butter with the fingers.
• Add the sugar and egg yolks and mix all the ingredients well.
• Handle the dough very carefully as it breaks easily.
• Roll out thinly, and use half to line deep tartlet tins.
• Make up custard ad fill the cases.
• Cover with lids of dough and press edges together lightly.
• Bake in fairly hot oven for 10 minutes until golden brown.
• Cool in tins for 5 minutes, remove carefully, and coo before serving.
• To make the custard, heat the milk.
• Beat together the sugar, flour, eggs and egg yolk.
• Add a little hot milk and mix well, then add remaining milk.
• Bring to the boil, stirring constantly.
• Cool, stirring often to prevent a skin forming, and flavour with vanilla essence before using.