3/7 Very Lemon Tart with Pastry Student Jamie of Oh Me, Oh Pie at 7:30pm PT
Recipe from Billy Grant of Restaurant Bricco, West Hartford, CT
Billy Grant created a lemon dessert tasting with his pastry chef, Fran Marino, for his Beard House debut, and it has been on his restaurant menu ever since. This tart was paired with a lemon mascarpone mousse and lemon gelato to make it a very lemony affair, indeed.
Ingredients
Filling:
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 eggs
Zest of 1 lemon (about 1 tablespoon), minced
Juice of 1 lemon (about 1/4 cup)
Pâte Brisée (Tart Pastry):
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 sticks butter (14 tablespoons), cut into cubes and chilled
1 egg
1 to 2 tablespoons heavy cream, chilled
About Our Teacher
As a kid, Jamie fell in love with baking. She spent a considerable amount of time in the kitchen until college. After graduating, she was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Cambodia in 2019-2020. In March 2020 she was evacuated from Cambodia, as a result of Covid. During quarantine, she baked a countless number of pies -- eventually, she sold pies at her local farmer's market and pop ups. The success and joy she received from baking for the markets encouraged her to attend pastry school.