Friday 29 October 2010

Pear and Honey tart

This was too fiddly for the taste pay-off.
Make pastry, chill it.
Roll out, lay over tart pan.
Bake for 10 minutes with dried beans to stop it puffing up.
Bake for 5 minutes without beans.
Peel, core and quarter and cook pears, puree them.
Peel, core and slice and cook pear slices to brown them.
Whisk up cream, eggs for the custard.
Layer puree onto baked pastry.
Layer pear slices onto baked pastry.
ERK - except don't because by the time you've got pastry and pear puree in the tart pan, there's not going to be room for the sliced pears and the custard. So I decide to cook them in a separate dish. Then have to turn it all upside down in various stages to get it all together again.
And after all that - the honey isn't strong enough and the pear puree is too wussy for my tastes. And the pears started so beautifully.

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