South African Melktert

South African Melktert   (Zuid Afrikaanse Melk Taart)


Not a Mary Berry recipe none the less worth writing down.


What do we need:

For the pastry:

2 tbs butter - please not margerine
2 tbs sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup self-raising flour
pinch of salt

For the filling:

2 cups milk
2 eggs, separated
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cake flour (proper cake flour)
1/4 corn flour
pinch of salt
2 tbs butter
1 tsp vanilla essence
Ground Cinnamon


1. Pre-heat your oven to 180C. Blitz all the ingredients together until it all clumps together to form a dough.

2. Press into a lightly greased 24 cm tart dish. Chill in the fridge while preparing the filling.

3. Heat the milk in a medium pan. (do not boil)

4. Beat the yolks and sugar until creamy and light then add the flours and salt- the mixture will be quite thick and velvety.

5. Add some warm milk to the egg mixture and then return all of it to the pan. Bring to the boil and whisk constantly untill thickened.

6. Remove from the heat and whisk in the butter and vanilla. Whisk the egg whites in a clean! bowl until soft peaks form and gently fold into the custard.

7. Pour it into the chilled pastry case and sprinkle it with the cinnamon.

8. Bake for about 30 minutes.

You can try it with frozen puff pastry.


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