INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

EQUIPMENT
Using a bowl and whisk, beat the butter until smooth; add the sugar and
beat for 3 minutes. Still beating, add first one egg, then the other and
finally beat in the flour, baking powder and orange flower water. The
mixture should be very smooth.
Preheat the oven to 200 oC / 400 oF.
Butter the inside of the cake tin and sprinkle with flour. Turn over the
tin and tap out the excess flour. Fill the piping bag with some of the
egg-sugar-...-mixture. Starting from the outside and working inwards, pipe
the mixture into a spiral so that the bottom of the tin is entirely
covered, with no gaps between the spirals.
Carefully spoon the creme patissiere into the centre of the tin, spread it
out slightly, but leave at least 2 cm / 3/4 in uncovered all round the edge
of the tin.
Continue to pipe spirals from the outside inwards, piping one on top of the
other, so that the creme patissiere is complerely enclosed on all sides by
the egg-sugar-...-mixture.
Brush the top of the tart with the egg yolk-milk-mixture, score a lattice
pattern with a fork and cook in the preheated oven for 45 minutes.
Leave to cool, then unmould on to a wire rack.
Serving
Accompanied by some home-made jam or, better still, redcurrant jelly.
(Albert and Michel Roux, The Roux brothers, French country cooking, M
Papermac, 1992, ISBN 0-333-57670-5)

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