MELKTERT (CUSTARD PIE)
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[edit] Description
Melktert. Good traditional Zambian and South African recipe. Try it!
This is no Quick Melktert (microwave) recipe. This is the traditional Zambia way.
[edit] Ingredients
- 4 oz flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 oz butter
- 2 egg yolks
- pich salt
- 1 pint milk
- 8 oz Sugar
- 2 tbsp cornflour
- 3 egg whites
- 1 oz butter cinnamon and Sugar
[edit] Directions
- Rub butter into sifted flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add egg yolks and enough milk to make a stiff dough.
- Roll out thinly and line one large or two small cake pans.
- To make filling, dissolve cornflour in a little of the milk and boil the remaining milk together with the Sugar.
- Pour milk/Sugar onto the cornflour mixture and cook for 3 minutes, stirring all the time.
- Stir in the butter.
- Cool slightly then fold the stiffly beaten egg whites.
- Pour the mixture into lined cake pans, sprinkle with Sugar and cinnamon, and bake in a 400 degree oven for about 10 minutes.
