Milk Tart (Melk Tert) Recipe - YouLookFab Forum

As promised for those interested.

My SIL is a chef at a great London restaurant. She asked for this recipe, which outshone all the others she tried. The restaurant is using it. Enough said

You need to get a specific ingredient off Amazon. Custard powder. See Find.

It's a temperamental dessert to make. You need to make it the day before you are serving it. It has to set and infuse.

Do not substitute ingredients! This is not for dairy-free or gluten-free diets. Be exact with measurements and method.

The recipe is on the blog. It was an April Fool's Day post 12 years ago, but the recipe is pukka (authentic):

https://youlookfab.com/2013/04.....milk-tart/

Keep the base THIN - so cut off the excess bits as you press it into the tin.

Use a large pie tin with removable sides.

I've made a few since we moved back into our remodeled loft, since it's a requested dessert by dear friends! Exhibit A is the one I made a few weeks ago. And our new Scandi kitchen has a turquoise backsplash.

Feel free to ask questions. Hope it works out. xo

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Bird's Traditional Custard Powder 250g

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1 month ago

BlueJay

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Thanks Angie!! Looks yummy! I can't wait to try it.

LJP

Funny post - I think it was before my time :). I just might have to try this even though the ingredients are giving me a heart attack just reading them, haha. Off to see if I saved my old shallow pie tins .......

JAileen

I’m going out this afternoon and thought I would check World Market for the custard powder. Sure enough, they have it, on their website anyway.

I love the website’s suggestions: since I’m interested in custard powder, I might be interested in this sofa or that chair.

Lisa

I remember that April Fool's post! I thought the tart looked yummy then and it still looks yummy today. I'm going to try to make this sometime! Thanks for the reminder and for sharing the recipe.

Angie

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Fashion Stylist

Blue Jay, lovely!

JAileen, yes! Clever World Market is a great place to look for custard powder. I was just there this afternoon with Jo. Needed Indonesian prawn crackers for a dinner party on Friday. I've seen custard powder sold there before!

Lisa, fun you remember that post! Your 15 years on YLF and counting.....

Jenni NZ

Well being a British colony we certainly have custard powder. I have been doing a lot of tidying up at home lately (almost 7 years in this new house and stuff has accumulated, needs paring down) and saw that I have a box of custard powder just the other day.
I made a lemon cheesecake at the weekend to take to friends, it has as much rich stuff (cream cheese, whipping cream etc) as your tart.
But what is “cornstarch”? I assume that might be what we call cornflour? Can anyone help? I have that.

Jenni, cornstarch is a fine, white, starchy powder from the endosperm of the corn kernel. It's not yellow. It's used as a thickening agent.

Maybe NZ Sal can help out?

Joyce B

Thank you for sharing the recipe, Angie. It looks most delicious and I will be trying it out soon. I will make sure to get extra exercise before I try it

Quora answered it Angie- what is called cornstarch in the US is called cornflour in NZ

Runcarla

I’ve got Bird’s custard powder in my baking cupboard! DH likes runny custard on apple crisp and apple pie. (I do too!)

Star (Lise)

Yum! Thanks Angie

RobinF

Sounds delicious!

April

Oh my word - Joyce B, you have my undying thanks and appreciation for asking this recipe to go on the Off Topic. (And of course the same go to Angie for posting it, but then you always have my undying thanks and appreciation.)

This is a Mr. A favorite-to-be.

P.S. If anyone no longer uses Amazon, Bird’s is cheap as chips at World Market.

Great April Fools post, Angie, haha. I think that was shared before I discovered this wonderful forum. Thanks so much for the recipe. I’m not a big fan of dairy myself, but it would be perfect to make for a party so my guests can enjoy it!

Jules

I think the original post got me, lol!
The recipe is quite interesting - there are so many global variations on the "custard tart" theme, I like to learn about them even if I never end up making the recipe. Here in Canada, custard powder is used in the iconic Nanaimo Bars.

Sal

Yum - I will try this one!! I have custard powder always as I love it!!

cat2

Your post actually sent me off to find tofu and fennel stir fry recipes, as I had never heard of that combination. I now have one bookmarked.

(FYI: the food I serve to Team Bench in our YLF polls is food I make in person. All honest and authentic!).

It's a pleasure JoyceB, and everyone

Jenni, aha! Glad that's sorted.

April, I appreciate your appreciation!

Sal, looks like something you'd enjoy!

cat2, I use fennel bulbs in my cooking - thinly sliced. Not the herb! I make a yummy soft tofu, fennel, leak, jalapeño, peas, tomato and gochugang dish. It's delicious with roasted cumin delicata squash. Last week's pic:

Style Fan

The milk tart looks delicious, but I rarely make desserts. I do make Nanaimo bars and use custard powder. I found the custard powder in the 'International Foods' section of the local grocery store.

Angie, your Scandi kitchen looks gorgeous.

Well Jules and Style Fan my husband actually made some Nanaimo bars last year for his 2 Canadian staff members! He researched quite a few recipes (all of which claimed to be “the best”) and the two staff members insisted he should use Bird’s custard powder. Of course we didn’t have that, but our good old NZ brand Edmond’s custard powder came through.
They both said they were delicious and possibly the best ones they had tasted

That’s so lovely Jenni I still have a goal to make Anzac biscuits someday! I’m going to add them and the milk tart to my ‘cooking goals’ list.

ChristelJ

That tofu and fennel bulb dish sounds and looks fantastic!

lyn67

Ah, rememeber this post!:-) Love your turquoise backsplash, I also have a glass backsplash in my kitchen! Mine is a greyish groundglass and I love it for the lack of grout lines so much!

A UK food specialty shop opened in my neighbourhood, so I used it as an excuse to make a start on my goals to make the tart, plus Anzac ‘biscuits’. Truthfully the custard powder and Lyle’s syrup are often available at major grocers too, but it gave me an excuse to check out a new local business and pick up some other treats Then I was tickled by the fact they gave me an apple green bag, a colour I love and associate with Angie and ylf!

It’ll be a week or two before I do any baking as it was my younger daughter’s 16th birthday yesterday - I made a complicated apple pie layer cake for the family, and also ordered this pretty cake for her party with friends last weekend.

An additional question from the US: vanilla essence = vanilla extract, or something slightly different?

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