You'll eat it in France, more than you probably should, but few know: It all started in Italy.
Ingredients
- 140 g. flour
- 300 g. butter cut into pieces
- 130 g. water
- 14. g salt
- 310 g. flour
- 90 g. butter
- 340 g. whole milk
- 340 g. heavy whipping cream
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 135 g. sugar
- 60 g. egg yolk
- 1 egg
- 40 g. corn starch
Directions
Step by step
- Make a 25 by 25cm dough using butter and flour for the beurre manié, and let it rest for 2 hours in the fridge;
- Do the same thing for the détrempe;
- Wrap the beurre manié around the détrempe at a 45 degree angle (4-end star shape); make a tour double; and let rest for another 2 hours;
- Make a second tour double and let rest for another 2 hours;
- Make a single tour and let rest overnight;
- Spread on pan and cook with weights for 1 hour at 320 degrees;
- Mix milk, cream and vanilla; make your caramel with the 100g of sugar; warm your milk separately and verse in 3-steps in your caramel;
- Mix eggs, yolk, sugar and cornstarch and slowly mix into the caramel-milk mix; bring all to a boil stirring constantly.
- Verse the custard into the pan, and cook for 15 minutes at 338 degrees.
Ingredients by component
- 140g of flour
- 300g of butter cut into pieces
- 130g of water
- 14g of salt
- 310 of flour
- 90g of butter
- 340g of whole milk
- 340g of heavy whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 100g of sugar and 35g of sugar
- 60g of egg yolk
- 1 egg
- 40g of corn starch