{"id":707,"date":"2018-07-02T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T13:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2018-07-02T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T13:07:03","slug":"recipes-koffie-en-melktert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/recipes-koffie-en-melktert\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipes through the seasons: Koffie en melktert"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it sleets, snows and hails across the Western Cape, we are staying snug with coffee and milktart, Stanford style. Thank you to the Stanford Food Heroes at the Grootbos Foundation<\/a>\u00a0for this perfectly timed recipe.<\/p>\n

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INGREDIENTS
\nPastry
\n<\/strong>2 cups flour
\n1 egg
\n\u00bd cup sugar
\n2 tsp baking powder
\n125g butter
\npinch of salt<\/p>\n

Filling
\n<\/strong>4 \u00bd cups milk
\n2 \u00bd tbsp cornflour
\n1 cup sugar
\n3 eggs
\npinch of salt
\n2 \u00bd tbsp flour
\n1 tsp vanilla essence
\na big spoon of butter<\/p>\n

METHOD
\nPastry
\n<\/strong>Cream butter and sugar well together and add the egg, before beating well.
\nAdd all other ingredients \u2013 making a stiff dough.
\nPress into one or two round cake tins\/pie dishes.
\nBake blind for 15 minutes at 180\u00b0C (use wax paper to cover the pastry and place dry beans\/rice over the paper to weight the pastry down). Then remove the paper and beans\/rice and bake for an additional 5 minutes until light brown.<\/p>\n

Filling
\n<\/strong>Bring milk to a gentle boil.
\nBeat eggs well and add sugar, flour, cornflour and salt.
\nMix well.
\nPour boiling milk into the mixture and stir well.
\nReturn to stove and stir for 10-12 minutes on medium heat until the mixture thickens.
\nAdd butter and vanilla essence and mix through, then pour into cooked shell.
\nAllow to cool in the fridge (you do not need to cook the tart any further)
\nTo decorate, sprinkle with cinnamon.<\/p>\n

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We are pairing this\u00a0South African favourite with a local Cuppa-Jo. Choose your favourite local brew and smuggle it home in travel mug where you can kick off your gumboots, slip into your stokies and curl up on the couch with a slice (or 2) of melktert!<\/p>\n

For tip-top posh coffee in Stanford, try\u00a0Ou Meul Bakkery<\/a>,\u00a0Coffee Corner<\/a>,\u00a0Yum Eat Cafe<\/a>,\u00a0Graze<\/a>\u00a0or La Tratorria<\/a>\u00a0or just outside the village at\u00a0Stanford Harvest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Words: Phil Murray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While it sleets, snows and hails across the Western Cape, we are staying snug with coffee and milktart, Stanford style. Thank you to the Stanford Food Heroes at the Grootbos Foundation\u00a0for this perfectly timed recipe.   INGREDIENTS Pastry 2 cups flour 1 egg \u00bd cup sugar 2 tsp baking powder 125g butter pinch of salt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,9,1],"tags":[160,159,158,120,137,125,161,157],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Stokies-banner.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}