"the gourmet club', april edition (4/12)
This month's theme dinner was about to be "diet" food but that was quickly scapped for a much less intense theme: A-P-R-I-L. That was...of the five dishes we all make, each of the letters of the month April had to be the main ingredient in the dish. Hmmm...interesting.
We (Jan and I) drew dessert and the letter "L". We thought immediately of lavender and lychee ice cream with a lemon bar but ended up with a lime tart with a lavender sweet tart crust.
The crust was a butter-based crust out of the trusty Fannie Farmer Baking Book with about three small handfuls of dried lavender mixed in. It wa fragrant and I'm glad I thought I used too much because baking drove out some of the scent and left it nicely scented (as opposed to intensely scented...)
The filling was a simple 5 egg yolks, 14 oz. sweetened condensed milk and about 10 tablespoons of lime juice. Beat the yolks, stir in the milk, stir in the lime juice, pour into the pre-baked crust and 20-25 minutes later the filling is set enough to eat. We cooled it, of course, and garnished with thin lime slices...