Tantalise your taste buds with a delicious milk tart

Recipe tried and tested By Pamela Mkhungo

People assume that baking is time consuming and costly. However, this is not the case when it comes to making a milk tart. Here is a simple recipe.

Ingredients 

• 1 packets of tennis biscuits , crushed
• 125g butter, melted
• 500ml (2 cups) milk
• 2 piece of cinnamon sticks
• 1 cup of white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 45 ml (3t) corn flour
• 45 ml (3t)  flour
• 3ml(1/2) vanilla essence
• 30 ml butter
• Cinnamon and sugar for sprinkling

Crust method

1. Combine the crushed tennis biscuits and melted butter and press into a pie dish

Filling

1. Heat the milk with the cinnamon stick to just under boiling point
2. Meanwhile, lightly beat eggs with the sugar, then add the corn flour and flour
3. Pour the hot milk into this mixture stirring rapidly, return the mixture to the heat and cook, stir until the mixture becomes very thick. Thorough stirring is important to prevent the mixture from catching on the bottom of the pan and to prevent lumps
4. Turn off the heat, add the vanilla essence and butter, stir well until butter is melted
5. Pour the mixture into the prepared tart crust. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

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