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A pear and chocolate tart and pizza dough

01 Friday Aug 2014

Posted by laurieanichols in postaday, postaday2014, Uncategorized

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Last night I made my cousin Francoise’s recipe for pear and chocolate tart because today it is going to be delivered to an associate and friend of my husband’s. Tomorrow I will be making another one for our family because our daughter was not too pleased to find out that this tart was leaving the premises.

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The tart is very simple to make; all you need is a basic pie crust dough recipe, the one with flour, chilled butter and lard, salt, sugar and ice water. Once the ingredients was been pulsed enough to form a ball, you cover it in plastic wrap, chill for 30 minutes and then roll it out onto your pie tin. The chocolate part of the tart is done by melting a bar of chocolate and pouring it and smoothing it all over the base of the pie crust dough. You then take a big can of pear halves and fan them out on the melted chocolate. You beat four eggs, 5 tbsp of sugar and a cup of heavy cream and pour that on top. You put the tart into a 375 oven for about 40 minutes and voila.

I am making pizza dough for our cousins who are arriving this evening so that I have something almost ready for them when they file into the kitchen all hungry and tired. Pizza dough is another easy thing; flour, salt, yeast, warm water, pinch of sugar and drizzle of olive oil and you let it rest. Pizza is fun because you make of it what you will; loaded with tons of stuff or as minimalist as you dare, it doesn’t matter as long as you like it.

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