PINEAPPLE TART

This recipes taken from an old black and white nyonya cook book. I have used this recipes for many years when comes to making pineapple tart.Everybody love this pineapple cookies.

PINEAPPLE TART
Ingredients; A
565g flour
340g chilled butter
2 tsp baking powder
Ingredients;B
2 tbsp castor sugar
3 egg yolk
1tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt

8 tbsp hot boiling water

Method;
1.sift A together into a basin
2.rub butter lightly into flour with tips of finger till mixture resemble breadcrumbs
3.Beat B lightly in a bowl.
4.pour egg mixture into flour batter.add boiling water and mix with both hand to form a pastry dough.
5.chill in refrigerator for 1/2 hours.
6.roll dough into ball,flatten put in a ball of pineapple jam  and wrap it into ball.
7.place tart on tray lined with greasedproof paper,glaze and bake in oven at 170c for 20 min

Home made pineapple jam;

Ingredients;
3 pineapple mauritian
500g sugar
2in cinnamon stick
3 star anise
3 cloves

Method:
cut the pineapple into 4part,grate the pineapple using a hand grater.put the grated pineapple into a high pot,add in the sugar,cinamon,star anise,clove using low heat to cook.Stirring occasionally at the begining,when the gravy getting  thicker,kept stirring until the gravy is dry.it take about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.remove from stove to cool.Be careful when stirring it will splash at your hand.use a long wooden spoon and a high pot.(or wear a glove)