[Sca-cooks] Re: Strawberry Recipes?

[Jessica Tiffin]

I gave Sabina Welserin's strawberry tart recipe:
>>89 To make a strawberry tart
>>Make a pastry shell and let it become firm
>>in the tart pan.  Afterwards take strawberries
>>and lay them around on top as close together as
>>possible, after that sweeten them especially well.
>>Next let it bake a short while,
>>pour Malavosia over it and let it bake a while,
>>then it is ready.
and Gunthar asked:
>Sounds nice. One question though. When it says to
>"let it become firm in the tart pan" does that
>mean to prebake the pie shell or let it sit out
>to stiffen?
I interpreted it as baking it blind - the filling is very liquid, I'd worry
about ending up with very mushy pastry if I didn't harden it first.
Valoise may be able to give us more pointers from the original German.

JdH


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