Traditional Milk Tart

As part of his SA history, our youngest recently made a traditional milk tart. I thought it would be fun to share the recipe with those who want to learn more about South African culture and traditional dishes.

Milk tart is a tasty dessert with a pastry crust and a creamy milk filling.

 It is delicious warm or cold and there are many different ways of making it. 

Here is the recipe he used, with a slight difference to suite our personal preference.

Ingredients:

puff pastry

1 litre milk

1 stick cinnamon

100ml sugar

100ml cake flour

pinch of salt

50ml butter

4 eggs

ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 180 C

Roll out puff pastry and line a pie dish, then pre-bake

Remove once done and set aside

Boil milk with cinnamon stick and add butter to milk mixture

In a separate bowl, mix sugar, salt and cake flour

Add the hot milk slowly to this mixture, stirring well to prevent lumps

Add beaten eggs 

(our recipe suggests separating the eggs, adding yolks and folding in stiffly beaten whites 

but we prefer to add the whole eggs)

Return to low heat, allow mixture to thicken while stirring

We add a good dose of cinnamon to the mixture

Pour into pre baked crust

Bake at 180C for about 20 minutes until set and golden.

Remove from the oven, sprinkle with more cinnamon if you like and enjoy warm or cold.

He loved being able to prepare a tasty dessert for his family.