Ingredients
- Title:Pastry
- 225g plain flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 60g castor sugar
- 85g unsalted butter
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 tbs hot milk
- Title:Filling
- 400g silverbeet leaves (weighed after stripping leaves from stems)
- ¼ cup apricot jam or fine-cut marmalade
- ½ cup pinenuts
- ½ cup dried currants, soaked in 1¼3 cup orange juice (or rum)
- 1 teaspoon orange flower water
- 1 egg
- 1 tbs sugar
Method
For the pastry: Put flour, salt and sugar in bowl of food processor. Give a brief whiz to mix. Drop in butter, cut into pieces.
Pulse until mix resembles breadcrumbs.
With motor running, add yolks and hot milk. Process until pastry just forms a ball.
Remove and divide into two-thirds and one-third. Press each piece into a flat disc, wrap in plastic film or foil and refrigerate for one hour.
For the filling
Wash the silverbeet leaves. Bring a large pot of water to the boil. Drop in leaves, swish around for a minute or so until water reboils.Quickly lift leaves from the hot water and cool in very cold water. With yourhands, squeeze the silverbeet leaves well and give a final squeeze in a clean cloth.
Chop leaves roughly and put into a bowl with the jam, pinenuts, currants and any remaining orange juice or rum, and orange flower water.Preheat oven to 200C.Roll out the larger piece of pastry and line the tin with it. Chill for 20 minutes.
Spoon in the filling, pushing it well into the corners of the tart.Roll out the remaining pastry and cut into 1cm strips. Arrange in a latticepattern across the top of the tart.
Brush with the egg and scatter the lattice with a little castor sugar.
Bake tart for 20-30 minutes until pastry is golden brown. Cool before cutting, but release the tart from the ring while still warm or the stickyapple and apricot juices can cause the pastry to fuse to the tin.
This is good served with thick cream.
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