I am in the rare position of having enough coverage in the Dingle shop that I have a bank holiday weekend off. After enjoying the sun yesterday, today was bleak and rainy, and so I turned my attention to another new cookbook that I acquired – Simply Sensational Desserts by Francois Payard.
Payard, originally from Nice, is an award-winning dessert chef in NY, and I must say that his lemon tart was a huge success among my lucky family members. The only comment is that the filling didn’t really fill the crust, but then my pie dishes are 10 1/2 inches, which is probably bigger than he’d expect. I’d increase the volume of ingredients next time.
Also, similar to my rant on flour, it’s impossible for me to find normal confectioners sugar in the shops (and we ran out of it in production). What they have here is icing sugar, but it’s laced with all sorts of other ingredients and behaves very strangely. I substituted caster sugar in the crust, and it seemed to work ok although the dough was a bit delicate. I’d probably put a little less in next time and add more flour.
I will try the chocolate tart next and let you know how I get on, but on the balance of one trial, I highly recommend the book. The other recipes look delicious!
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This looks scrumptious, love a good lemon tart any day
I have the opposite problem to you, there is always filling left over, not because I make too much, it’s just that my tart crust always manages to shrink back unevenly.
That’s interesting! My crust did the opposite. If I hadn’t weighed it down w. a heap of beans, I think it would have burst the oven! (Well, not quite)…
Hey the lemon tart looks great but I was wondering whether you could give a recipe of that chocolate tart that you made as well it looks fantastic and I would love to make it!
You can find that recipe here:
http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/special/1999/sensational/tart.html