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Gary Mehigan

Linzer Torte


Ingredients

  • 150g unsalted butter
  • 200g icing sugar
  • 1 egg beaten
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 1 lemon zest & juice
  • 140g flour sifted
  • 110g ground almonds
  • Pinch cinnamon
  • 220g red current jelly
  • 1 egg beaten to glaze
  • Icing sugar for dusting

Method

  1. Pre heat the oven to 180C.
  2. Cream the butter and sugar together until creamy and fluffy.
  3. Gradually beat in the whole egg and the egg yolks.
  4. Stir the lemon zest, flour, and almonds, knead to form smooth dough.
  5. Rest for twenty minutes and roll out half the dough to the size of the flan ring allowing you to line the paste up the sides of the flan approximately 5mm thick.
  6. Roll the remaining dough out the same thickness and cut into strips 5mm thick.
  7. Spread the red current jelly into the base of the flan and place the dough strips across the tart to form a lattice.
  8. Brush the dough with the beaten egg to glaze and place into the oven.
  9. Bake for 40 minutes until golden.
  10. Remove from the oven and dust in icing sugar to serve.
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  • Jo Thomas
    May 2011

    The pastry in the recipe as printed above is very very sticky and doesn't come together to make a dough - it's totally unworkable. What a disappointment.

    • Anna A
      April 2012

      I used the above recipe and treated it more like a cake batter than a pastry. The Linzer Torte came out beautifully.

  • sue
    September 2010

    Does anyone know the rest of the recipe from the show. Please help

  • Philippa Jane
    November 2009

    Saw this made last week & had to give it a try. Printed off this recipe & couldn't understand why there seemed less 'pastry'.... until I replayed the show. Gary's recipe from the show is:- 225g butter 225g icing sugar 2 whole eggs 4 egg yolks zest of 1 lemon (no mention of the juice) 1½ cups of flour 1½ cups of hazelnut or almond meal judging from the replay, I'd say about ½ tsp cinnamon (no egg for glazing - just not necessary) Gary used a large piping bag to cover the base and sides of a fluted tart tin using the nozzle housing rather than a nozzle itself. This worked exceptionally well as the pastry/batter is very soft. He used a large icing nozzle to pipe in the jam. Whilst I had less batter/pastry than I would have had I followed the SHOW'S recipe, it still turned out ok. Next time (and there will be a next time - it was wonderful) I'll follow the recipe from the show.

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