Rustic italian jam tart - crostata

Ingredients

• 1 1/3 cup butter
• 5 scant cups of flour
• pinch of salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 full eggs + 3 yolks
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

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Preparation

• Cream butter & sugar until light & fluffy. Beat in all the eggs & vanilla.
• Sift together all the dry ingredients. Incorporate the flour into the butter & egg mixture with a few strokes of a wooden spoon forming a dough.
• Take 1/3 of the dough & press into a partchment lined tart pan to 1/4 inch thickness. If the dough is sticky wet your finger tips slightly.
• Pull off a pinch of dough & roll into a long snake. This is an easy dough to work with if it breaks just pinch it back together. This is a rustic tart. Moist hands will help if the dough is sticky.
  
• Continue until you have enough to make your lattice top. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for about an hour or until the top is nice & brown, the bottom is cooked & the dough should shrink away from the pan a bit.

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