Blueberry Cornmeal Shortbread Tart Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Mix flour, butter, and powdered sugar together until a dough forms. Press dough into a 9-inch tart pan with a removable bottom.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 20 minutes. Let cool slightly.
• Meanwhile, toss blueberries with cornstarch and place in a saucepan over low heat. Add sugar and lemon extract. Simmer, stirring gently to avoid crushing the berries, until sugar dissolves and filling thickens, 5 to 8 minutes.
• Pour blueberry filling over the cooled crust. Let cool before slicing.

Steps:

• Shortbread Crust Sift flour and sugar together in mixing bowl. With pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture resembles cornmeal. Chill 30 minutes, then turn into 9" tart pan or piepan and press firmly onto bottom and sides. Bake in preheated 425 degree oven 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on cake rack. Filling In a saucepan combine blueberries, sugar, lemon juice, jelly, and lemon rind. Bring mixture to boil over moderate heat and boil for 10 minutes or until thickened. Let the jam cool completely. Carefully, set the pastry shell on serving plate. Adaptation fill shell with jam when ready to serve - otherwise crust gets soggy. Cover the jam with picked over berries. Dust with sifted icing sugar and serve with whipped cream, sweetened with icing sugar and flavoured with liqueur.

Steps:

• Make the crust: blend flour, cornmeal, sugar and salt in a food processor. Add butter and shortening, then pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add 4 tablespoons ice water and blend until dough forms a ball, adding more ice water, a half-tablespoon at a time (up to 2 additional tablespoons), if dough is dry. Divide dough in half, flatten into two round disks, wrap in plastic and chill at least 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, in a large bowl, make the filling: whisk together sugar, cornstarch, salt and lemon zest. Fold in 4 cups blueberries, lemon juice and 1 tablespoon water. Let stand at room temperature about 45 minutes until juices form. Gently fold in the remaining 2 cups blueberries.
• Heat oven to 400 degrees. On a floured surface, roll out one dough round. Transfer rolled-out dough to a 9-inch pie pan and fill with blueberry mixture. Roll out the second dough round, then use it to cover the pie, decoratively crimping together dough edges to seal. Score top crust with a knife so pie can vent. Brush with milk and sprinkle with Demerara sugar.
• Place pie pan on a rimmed cookie sheet and bake for 25 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees and continue baking until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbling, about 35 minutes more. Spoon any escaped juices onto pie. Transfer to a rack and cool completely before serving.