Strawberry Rhubarb Tart

There’s a definite easiness and simplicity to free-form tarts for illustration this. Sometimes they’re called a crostata, sometimes a galette. You tin telephone it immoderate you want, but I telephone it a accelerated measurement to usage awesome consequence erstwhile it’s successful season, without a batch of fuss.

At nan opening of summer, erstwhile rhubarb is still lingering around, and strawberries are elbowing their measurement forward, it’s a bully point nan 2 spell truthful good together. And I’m happy to thief them hook up.

I retrieve a neighbour had a large rhubarb works successful their backyard and we utilized to dip nan earthy stalks successful a cup of sweetener and eat them. (Somehow, we knew not to eat nan leaves, which are toxic.) I still remember, not conscionable nan truth that you could get free nutrient from nan earth, but that thing could person truthful overmuch flavor. Some kids aren’t fond of things that are tangy but I’ve ever loved nan opposition of saccharine and tart.

Recently I was truthful excited to find specified beautiful berries that I bought 3 large baskets of them. I made a small batch of Strawberry Rhubarb Jam, and different batch of Strawberry Vodka, some of which I dream will prolong nan season…unlike this tart, which lasted not truthful agelong astir here.

I first learned to make tarts for illustration this from Jacques Pépin, erstwhile he came to activity pinch us and began his displacement by rolling retired mixed for consequence tarts. He really double-doughed his tarts, rolling retired 2 rounds of dough, and sandwiching nan consequence betwixt nan two.

Being French, he brushed nan apical pinch tons of food and liberally dusted nan apical pinch sugar. Today I usually make them open-faced, but do brushwood nan crust pinch tons of food and a generous sprinkling of sugar, which makes a crunchy crust, and is simply a bully opposition to nan tender fruit-forward filling.

When I posted a image of this tart connected societal media, pinch a committedness to stock nan recipe, a friend, Ann Mah, asked maine really I dealt pinch each nan juice from rhubarb, which tin exude a mean amount. Hothouse rhubarb is mostly redder successful color and holds its colour amended than field-grown rhubarb erstwhile baked. However, I’ve ne'er recovered overmuch of a relationship betwixt if it’s grown indoors aliases out, and really overmuch juice it exudes.

That said, arsenic insurance, I sprinkle nan mixed pinch a small spot of almond flour to sorb immoderate errant juices. But I don’t mind things being a small spot messy; a friend’s Norwegian grandma erstwhile told maine that if pastry doesn’t autumn isolated erstwhile you portion it, it’s not going to beryllium immoderate good. This tart slices nicely but tastes great. So you’re getting nan champion of some worlds here, successful much ways than one.