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- From: r.gagnaux@chnet.ch (Rene Gagnaux)
- Subject: Onion tart
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- Organisation: R.Gagnaux Hergergaessli 6 CH6467 SCHATTDORF
- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- References: <4UxG3_de89@UUCP-CH.zer.sub.org>
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 11:00:00 +0100
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- MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v7.07
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- Title: Onion tart
- Categories: Appetizers
- Servings: 8
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- MMMMM------------------------------PASTRY-----------------------------------
- 200 g Plain flour
- 130 g Unsalted butter, softened
- 3 tb Water
- 1 Egg
- 1 ds Salt
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- MMMMM-----------------------------FILLING----------------------------------
- 400 g Onions
- 30 g Bacon, cut into thin strips
- 50 g Unsalted butter
- 3 1/2 dl Cream
- 3 1/2 dl Milk
- 4 Eggs
- 1 ds Gratted nutmeg
- 1 tb Chopped parsley
- Salt and pepper
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- Pastry
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- Make the flour into a 'well' on the pastry board, beat the egg and add it,
- with the butter, salt and a little of the water, to the centre of the
- well, then work the ingredients into the flour with your fingertips,
- incorporating more water little by little; whether you have to use all the
- water or not depends on the quality of the flour. Press all the dough
- together into a ball then, finally, work it thoroughly with the heel of
- your hand, gathering it up with pastry scraper as you do so until it is
- soft and pliable. Leave it in the refrigerator to firm up again before you
- roll it out.
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- Filling
-
- Peel the onions. Cut them into fine rings and weigh out 300 g.
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- Cook the bacon strips (which need to be VERY finely cut) in the butter.
- Let them take on a golden colour, then add the sliced onions and leave them
- to cook gently until they are tender.
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- In a bowl beat together the cream, milk and eggs, adding salt, pepper and
- nutmeg to taste.
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- When the onions are cooked, add them to the mixture in the bowl and add
- the chopped parsley.
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- Preparation
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- Roll out the dough 2mm thick and use it to line a buttered tart tin 26 cm
- in diameter and at least 3cm deep. Cut a disc of aluminium foil of the
- same diameter as the tin and place it on the pastry. Weight it down with a
- handful of beans or crusts.
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- Pre-heat the oven to 150 oC (300 oF) and cook the pastry 'blind' for half
- an hour. Watch the coulouring of the edge and as soon as it starts to turn
- golden remove the aluminium foil and beans or crusts. Cook the pastry
- shell until the base is baked but not coloured.
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- Fill the shell with the onion mixture. Put the tart back into the oven.
- Check that the temperature is still 150 oC and keep the oven at or just
- below this temperature for about 1 hour. Towards the end you could reduce
- the heat a little, as the tart needs TO COOK VERY SLOWLY. The tart is
- ready if, when you shake it, the filling appears to be quite firm with no
- hint of a whole in the centre.
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- Serve warm, in small slices !
-
- (From: Fredy Girardet, Cuisine spontanee)
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