Surprise Pie

Origin: Florence, Italy

Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Whisk eggs, sugar, rice flour and milk smoothly (reserve a little milk).
  2. Cook, stirring, into a firm custard; finish with butter, vanilla and salt; cool.
  3. Heap onto a flameproof dish and cover with short pastry (No. 589 B/C); decorate and glaze with yolk.
  4. Bake and serve hot, dusted with confectioners' sugar.

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