Ardennes Sugar Tart Recipe

Ardennes Sugar Tart

Cuisine of Champagne Ardenne, France

Preparation Time: 15 minutes and about 30 minutes to rest
Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:
Dough:
1 cup tepid milk
1 packet baker’s yeast
2 eggs (reserve a bit of the yolk to mix with a tablespoon of milk to brush on the crust)
1 teaspoon sugar to mix with the yeast + a little warm water to start it rising
3 dashes salt
7 tablespoons (100 g) softened butter
2 ½ cups (250 g) flour

Garnish:
1 cup (125 g) fine sugar – several pats of butter

Preparation:

- Put the flour in a bowl; add the salt, eggs, softened butter, and milk to the middle.

- Mixing with a fork, incorporate the flour bit by bit, lifting the dough to aerate it well

- Add the yeast, which you have already started with warm water. Continue to beat the dough.

- Let it rest in a warm place until the dough doubles in volume.
- Stretch the dough over the buttered pie plate; leave it to rise a bit, brush it with the egg yolk/milk mixture, and add sugar. Add pats of butter generously.

- Cook in a 450°F (230°C) oven for approximately 20 minutes.

- Remove from the pie plate.

Serve 6

Courtesy of French Government Tourist Office

The Loire Valley & Paris

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