I worked at home today, and spent my time working and making Portuguese egg tarts. I had to make 3 batches before I could get the recipe right. I lost my original recipe, and man, was that a good recipe! Anyway, I pulled one off allrecipes.com. The custard bit came out too doughy. And so I had to tweak it.
This is the final recipe. Enjoy
Ingredients
4 egg yolk
2 whole eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup cream
3/4 tablespoon corn flour (or rice flour or just wheat flour)
3/4 cup sugar
1 large piece of lemon rind
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence
1 sheet puff pastry
Preheat oven to 200 degrees celcius
first cut the piece of puff pastry in half and place one half on top of the other. Then roll it like a swiss roll (or jelly roll). Slice the roll into 12 'rounds'. Flatten with a rolling pin.
Grease a 12 hole muffin pan. Line each hole with a piece of pastry
In a bowl, whisk the egg yolks, eggs, flour and sugar. Add the milk and cream to the mixture. Add lemon rind and vamilla essence
Stir the mixture over a pot of simmering water and cook slowly till it is thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon. When it is thick enough, take it off the heat.
Pour mixture into the pastry cases.
Bake till the tops are lightly browned (brown spots may appear, and that is ok).
Enjoy!
