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Nachspeise · Canada · Montreal

Tarte au Sucre 🥧

Quebec's answer to the maple question: a shortcrust shell filled with a slow-set custard of brown sugar, butter and cream — maple syrup in modern houses, melted sugar in the old ones — born in the kitchens of the 'sugar shanties' where syrup season boiled sap for days. It is served warm, sometimes with a hard-maple 'sugar-on-snow' candy on the side, and it has never once needed fruit.

Quebec Quebécois ⏱ 70 Min Einfach

Zubereitung

  1. 1

    Blitz or rub the pastry to a shaggy dough, press into a 23 cm tart tin with a high edge, and blind-bake at 190 °C for 12–15 minutes until barely set.

  2. 2

    Melt butter with the brown sugar and cream in a pan until it sheets off a spoon — five minutes, no boil. Off the heat, whisk in egg and vanilla.

  3. 3

    Pour into the warm shell and bake at 160 °C for 25–30 minutes: the centre should wobble like jelly, never firm.

  4. 4

    Cool to lukewarm at least — Quebecers take it warm, straight from the tin, the filling still flowing.

  5. 5

    Cut thick wedges. If you want the full sugar-shack ritual, serve with a slab of maple taffy pulled from snow and a cup of black tea.

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