Wild berry tart

8 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1⅓ cup All-purpose flour
2 tablespoons Sugar
½ cup Unsalted butter, cold, in sm.pieces
1 large Egg yolk
3 tablespoons Ice water
2 tablespoons Cornstarch, dissolved in, 1/4 c. orange juice
¼ cup Sugar & more for sprinkling
2 cups Blueberries
1 cup Raspberries
1 cup Blackberries
1 large Egg yolk,, lightly beaten
Confectioner's sugar
Mint leaves
Whipped cream

Directions

PASTRY

FILLING

GARNISH

Pastry: In large bowl, mix flour and sugar. Cut in butter with pastry blender, until mixture resembles coarse meal. Blend in yolk. Drizzle in ice water, tossing lightly with a fork, until mixture forms a soft dough.

Gather into a ball. Press into a 1-in.-thick disk. Wrap in plastic; chill ½ hour or until cold enough to roll. Filling: In saucepan, combine cornstarch mixture, ¼ cup of the sugar and the blueberries. Cook over low heat, stirring until the mixture starts to thicken, 2-3 minutes. Add ½ cup each of the raspberries and blackberries; cook until thickened, about 2 minutes. Let cool completely Set oven rack in lowest position. Preheat oven to 400F. On floured surface, roll pastry to a 13-in. round; transfer to baking sheet. Spread filling to within 1½ in. of edge. Fold pastry edge up over filling. Brush pastry with yolk; sprinkle with sugar. Bake 25-35 minutes, until pastry is golden brown. let cool on sheet on rack. Slide tart onto serving plate. Top with remaining berries. Dust with confectioner's sugar, garnish with mint leaves and serve with whipped cream if desired.

NOTES : Adapted from " Maine Ingredients" by the Junior League of Portland, Maine

Recipe by: McCall's May 1997 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #557 by lunchuck <jock@...> on Apr 07, 1997

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