Grandmother's tart

1 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 cups All purpose flour
½ cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Packed grated lemon peel
½ teaspoon Salt; (scant)
½ cup Plus 2 tablespoons; (1/4 sticks) chilled
; unsalted butter,
; diced
2 larges Egg yolks
1 large Egg
1 cup Cherry or apricot-pineapple preserves
Powdered sugar

Directions

Preheat oven to 350F. Blend flour, sugar, lemon peel and salt in processor for 10 seconds. Add butter and process until coarse meal forms. Add yolks and egg and process until moist clumps form. Transfer dough to work surface. Gather dough into ball and knead 1 minute.

Divide dough into 2 pieces, one slightly larger than the other. Press larger dough piece evenly onto bottom and halfway up sides of 9-inch-diameter tart pan with removable bottom. Spread 1 cup preserves in crust. Cut remaining dough into 12 equal pieces. Roll pieces between hands and work surface into pencil-thin ropes. Arrange 6 ropes over preserves, spacing evenly and pressing ends to seal at crust edge; trim extra dough.

Arrange remaining 6 ropes in opposite direction, spacing evenly and forming lattice pattern. Press ends to seal at crust edge; trim extra dough.

Bake tart until crust is golden brown, piercing with toothpick if bottom crust bubbles, about 50 minutes. Cool tart in pan on rack. Can be prepared 8 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.) Remove pan sides. Lightly sift powdered sugar over tart, cut into wedges and serve.

Serves 8 to 10.

Bon Appetit May 1995

Converted by MC_Buster.

Per serving: 571 Calories (kcal); 15g Total Fat; (22% calories from fat); 11g Protein; 101g Carbohydrate; 612mg Cholesterol; 1137mg Sodium Food Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 1½ Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 2 Fat; 6 ½ Other Carbohydrates

Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.

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