Mixed Berry Tart
From: Baking: From My Home to Yours
Serves: 6 – 8
Well, friends, here it is: I make disasters, so you don’t have to.
Since I’ve always loved to bake and I’ve always been pretty good at it, sometimes my baking hubris gets the better of me. Even if I’m tackling something I’ve never tried before, I’m fairly certain it’s going to turn out well, because of my magic baking touch. Or ability to follow directions to a degree of compulsion, or history of success, or reliable compliments, or what have you. Essentially, I could stand to be taken down a peg or two. Occasionally.
Enter pastry cream! Here to remind Jill that baking is an act of chemistry and that she is no scientist. Continue reading
