salted flash

For ten flashes of medium size
 ( I give you my recipe fetish )

You will need:

125 g of water ,
125 g of milk ,
100 g butter ,
1 c . tablespoons of granulated sugar ,
150 g of flour,
1 pinch of salt
3 eggs .
Filling: Foam Thon St. Môret
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preparation:

Pour the milk and water in a saucepan. Add the diced butter , sugar and a pinch of salt. Cook over high heat, stirring with a spatula until boiling.
Remove from heat and add flour all at once. Mix until all the flour is absorbed.
Put the dough and dry on high heat , stirring until detachment to the pan and spatula . Let the dough cool a few minutes in a bowl
Stir in 3 beaten eggs omelette with vigorous mixing (for this time I did not put any ) .
Fill a pastry bag (with a plain tip and round ) preparation . On a baking sheet covered with parchment paper , make lightning. Brush the remaining beaten egg (optional) to brown .
Bake + or - 30 minutes in a preheated 180 ° C oven. I opened the door slightly to my oven at the beginning of cooking with a knife , cooking is slower but cabbage does not deflate . Remove from oven and let cool.

Cut the lightning in the lengthwise (not too middle) , fill them with cream and close them .

I take this recipe to wish everyone a very Happy New Year 2014.

My favorite Christmas Recipe * ...

Christmas time is coming . Then activates, we organize ... because spending Christmas without Mince Pies this is simply not possible. As bad as forgetting to decorate her Christmas tree!
If we are to believe our friends across the Channel ( and these people know what they do !) , Eat one of these spicy tarts every day until Christmas Eve of the Epiphany, is the most effective good luck charm.
These are the famous Twelve days of Christmas , duration of the journey of the Magi from the East to worship Jesus in Bethlehem after the announcement of his birth.
And it is the morning star , who has guided to divine child, found on the cover symbolized Mince pies .




The Mincemeat (for 2 pots of 0.4 l)
1 organic lemon (zest & juice)
1 organic orange (zest & juice)
1 large apple cut into small cubes
100 g candied orange peel , diced
100 g cranberries (only if you can find )
100 g blanched almonds , coarsely chopped
100 g of grapes from Chile (they are very big, very sweet and sour )
100 g of fine golden raisins
100 g brown sugar blonde
2 tsp (2 tsp) of Mix spices Espig bread (cinnamon, anise , ginger , nutmeg, cloves)
1 tsp ( 1 tsp ) cinnamon
3 pinches of grated nutmeg

+ 50 g melted butter (or 50 g of beef suet finely detailed for VO 100% UK)
+ 3 tbsp (3 Tbsp ) of good Whisky
+ Icing sugar for decoration

Sweet dough (for 12 Mince pies )
150 g soft butter
100g icing sugar
1 egg, beaten
250 g flour

Start your Mincemeat Eve so that the ingredients have time to develop and mingle their scents. Place all ingredients in a large bowl (except butter and whiskey ) and stir regularly. Cover with a cloth and store in a cool place overnight.

D-Day (or D day ), add the melted butter and pour into a bowl deep enough .

Preheat oven to 120 ° C.

Bake for 1 hour 30 heat ventilation. When Mincemeat is cooked, remove from the oven and add the whiskey . Now it only remains to put it in a pot. Whew, it's done!

Prepare the dough using a robot . Mix butter and sugar. Add the egg, then the flour . Form a ball and book for half an hour in the refrigerator .

Preheat oven to 160 ° C.

Roll out the dough to 4 mm thick and cut out 12 circles of dough (yes , The twelve days , remember? ) Using a cookie cutter . Place each circle of dough in a buttered tart pan . Garnish with Mincemeat cooled . Cut 12 stars ( with a punch) in the unused dough and decorate the tarts .

Bake for 12-15 minutes until Mince pies have taken a nice golden color. Let cool for a few minutes before removing from pan and sprinkle generously with icing sugar ...

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

They look simple these tarts . But these are treasures : a perfect sweet pastry that conceals fluxes and spicy fruit . Unforgettable .