Pineapple Tart Pastry  

Posted by: Julia in

Ingredients :

Pineapple jam :
  • 2 pineapples
  • 250 grammes granulated sugar
  • 5 cloves
  • a dash of cinnamon powder
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Tart :
  • 1 lbs flour
  • 10 oz. butter
  • 2 – 3 egg yolks
  • Some cold water
  • 4 teaspoon castor sugar
Directions :

Pineapple jam :
  1. Skin pineapple and scrape out the flesh. Drain flesh on a sieve for 10 minutes to obtain ½ cup of juice.
  2. Place the scraped pineapple flesh in a non-stick pan and add granulated sugar, pineapple juice, lemon juice, cloves and cinnamon. Place pan over low heat and cook, stirring occasionally for about ½ hour until pineapple jam is sticky and can easily be rolled into a ball. Set aside to cool.
Tart :
  1. Sift the flour and add in the castor sugar.
  2. Using the pointed ends of a fork, rub the butter into the flour until it looked like fine bread crumbs. If necessary, use fingertips to continue rubbing lightly the bigger pieces into finer pieces.
  3. Add egg yolks and cold water at the same time and knead well lightly combine them using finger tips (rather than kneading them like bread dough) before rolling out to desired thickness.
  4. Bake using 160 degrees Celcius / 325 degrees Fahrenheit) for 20 minutes. When placing jam onto the pastry, take caution not to smear jam onto the sides as this will easily “burn” and render the sides of the pastry (the flowery design) darker.

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