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Recipe Tags: Weeknight Time To Make Course Main Ingredient Preparation Pies And Tarts Desserts Fruit Vegetarian Pies Dietary Low Sodium Low In Something Pitted Fruit Plums Number Of Servings 4 Hours Or Less

Plum Walnut Tart

The cookie crust for this recipe is a wonderful secret and i use it as the base of many pies now. I take several shortcuts with this recipe. I live in the tropics so i rarely chill things as it just goes soft within 5 minutes. So i just press the dough straight into a pyrex flan tin (or similar table suitable dish that can tolerate the oven). I save any rolling for the lattice top and i'm not that fussy with how it looks as it comes out well and homemade looking and disappears so quickly. I use the big 800g + tins of plums and often use 2 tins as i like plums. This crust works will with other fruit that is pie friendly.

Steps

Cream the butter and sugar.
Add the egg , egg yolk , walnuts cinnamon and lemon rind and mix well.
Sift the flour and baking powder together.
Add to the eggs and mix to a smooth dough.
Chill several hours or until firm.
Butter and flour a 9 inch cake pan.
Roll half of the dough into a circle and fit it into the bottom and sides of the pan.
Mix the plums with the flour , sugar and walnuts and pour into the pastry lined pan.
Roll out remaining dough and cut into 1 / 2 inch strips.
Lay them over the top of the tart to make a lattice top.
Trim edges.
Bake in a preheated 350f oven for 40-45 minutes until crust is brown.

Ingredients

butter, sugar, egg, egg yolk, ground walnuts, cinnamon, fresh lemon rind, flour, baking powder, plums