On exceptional occasions, my cousin makes this delicious sausage gravy and biscuit recipe.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
| Yield: | 10 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 cups apricot preserves
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch pie plate or tart pan.
- In a large bowl, mix together the butter and sugar using a wooden spoon until smooth. Mix in the egg yolks one at a time, mixing well after each. Sift the flour and baking powder into the bowl, and mix just until you can form a solid ball out of the pastry with no crumbs.
- Reserve some of the dough for a lattice top. On a floured surface, roll the rest of the dough out to 1/8 inch thickness. Press into the bottom and up the sides of the prepared pan. Pour the apricot preserves into the crust, and spread evenly. Roll out the remaining dough, along with any scraps from the crust, to 1/8 inch thick. Cut into strips, and lay across the apricot preserves in a crosswise pattern.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the pastry is golden brown.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 525 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 85 g |
| Cholesterol | 110 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 12 g |
| Sodium | 195 mg |
| Sugars | 48 g |
| Fat | 20 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Good but very sweet for my taste. I halfed the sugar in the pastry. I still felt it was too sweet. I read someone’s review which said they added ricotta cheese. I might try that next time. Pastry was really hard to roll out so I ended up pressing it into the dish. I would let it chill next time. However it looked amazing, and pastry had a lovely texture when cooked.
This was not at all what I expected, but an extremely pleasant surprise. It’s more like a giant buttery cookie than it is like pastry. I filled it with a combination of raspberry pastry filling and peach perseveres, and it was delicious. Instead of putting the crust into a dish, I simply rolled it out, on a silicone mat, into a huge circle. I laid out my filling, leaving a lip of around a third of the dough, and then I folded up the edges to make it look like a rustic crostata. Mine took longer to bake, an extra 10 minutes, but it was well worth the wait. Next time, I’ll put more filling towards the edges. I think this cookie/crust is full of possibilities. Next time out, I’ll fill it with homemade applesauce. It’s made for experimentation.
Easy to make delicious to devour. I did alter the filling with ricotta,melted dark chocolate, Kalua, & pine nuts. Half cup ricotta cheese, 2 squares or melted chocolate (in dbl boiler), 3tbs of Kalua, 1/4 cup chopped pinenuts. Bake 325F for 35 to 40 min. & let cool. I would make sure the crust isn’t too thick 1/8in.
This is good, but very, very sweet. Next time I make it, I will cut the sugar in the crust to 3/4 cup instead of 1 cup. Also, the crust was extremely hard to roll out, so I chilled it for 1 hour and it made it much easier to handle. I also gave the crust and lattice top an egg wash to help it brown. It worked beautifully!