Free-Form Fruit Tart
- Total Time
- 2 hours 10 minutes
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Ingredients
- 1tablespoon buttermilk
- Basic tart dough (see recipe)
- 2nectarines, peeled, cored and quartered
- 1cup strawberries, quartered
- 1cup blackberries
- 1cup raspberries
- 1cup sweet butter, cut into small chunks
- 1cup sugar, plus 1 tablespoon
The Crust
The Fruit
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Preparation
- Step 1
Make the basic tart dough using buttermilk instead of the chilled water.
- Step 2
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Step 3
After the dough is chilled, place it on a nonstick cookie sheet and roll it into a circle about 14 inches in diameter.
- Step 4
Arrange the nectarines in the center of the dough and mound the berries on top of the nectarine slices. Scatter the chunks of butter over the fruit and sprinkle 1 cup of sugar over it all.
- Step 5
Fold up the edges of the dough to make a packet, with the fruit in the center partly exposed. Sprinkle the remaining sugar over the dough and bake the tart until the crust is golden and the fruit is soft, about 40 minutes.
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Comments
Something went horribly wrong with this recipe, and I'm willing to believe it was my fault, though I thought I followed the recipe exactly. But surely, surely, a cup of butter added to the fruit on top of the crust is too much? TWO whole sticks? And a full cup of sugar? In any case, after 5 minutes in a 350 oven, this melted into a puddle of butter. I scraped it all into a casserole dish, added oats on top, and put it back in. We'll see what we get.
It seems there is something terribly off with this recipe. I made a similar free form fruit tart from Cooks Illustrated 3 days ago that turned out beautifully. I thought I would try this recipe to compare. This recipe seems to have entirely too much butter and sugar as it melted into a soupy puddle on the baking sheet. I even read the previous review and skipped the butter on the fruit and cut back on the sugar. I expected more and was really disappointed.
Something went horribly wrong with this recipe, and I'm willing to believe it was my fault, though I thought I followed the recipe exactly. But surely, surely, a cup of butter added to the fruit on top of the crust is too much? TWO whole sticks? And a full cup of sugar? In any case, after 5 minutes in a 350 oven, this melted into a puddle of butter. I scraped it all into a casserole dish, added oats on top, and put it back in. We'll see what we get.
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