Gooseberry Tart

Name: Gooseberry Tart
Total time: PT0D0H0M
Yield: serves 6-8
Ingredients: 1 cup all-purpose flour; 3 tbsp. cake flour; 2 tbsp. sugar; pinches salt; 10 tbsp. cold butter, cut into pieces; 3 tbsp. Gooseberry Jam or currant jelly; 3 cups gooseberries, topped and tailed; 1 ⁄ 2 cup sugar

Serves
serves 6-8

This is the ultimate summer dessert, best made with the first crop of gooseberries.

Ingredients

For the Pastry

1 cup all-purpose flour
3 tbsp. cake flour
2 tbsp. sugar
pinches salt
10 tbsp. cold butter, cut into pieces

For the Filling

3 tbsp. Gooseberry Jam or currant jelly
3 cups gooseberries, topped and tailed
¹⁄₂ cup sugar

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Instructions

Step 1

For the pastry: Mix together all-purpose and cake flours, sugar, and salt in a medium mixing bowl. Use a pastry cutter or two knives to work butter into flour mixture until it resembles coarse meal. Add 2-3 tbsp. ice water, stirring dough with a fork until it holds together. Form dough into a ball, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Step 2

Preheat oven to 425°. Roll out dough into a 12'' round on a lightly floured surface, then ease into a 10'' fluted, false-bottom tart pan and flute the rim.

Step 3

For the filling: Brush bottom of pastry with jam, then fill with gooseberries. Sprinkle sugar over gooseberries.

Step 4

Bake tart for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 375° and continue baking until gooseberries just burst and edges of crust are golden, 30-40 minutes. Allow tart to cool, then unmold and serve with lightly sweetened whipped cream.