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Oct25

Pumpkin Tart

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Delicate, orange-pumpkin tart.

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Base layer;

shortcrust pastry

Filling

• 500 g ricotta cheese

• zest of 1 – 2 oranges

• a few drops of orange extract (optional )

• 2 tablespoons potato flour

• 2/3 cup sugar

• 4 eggs

• 1 1/3 cups (230 g ) roasted pumpkin purée*(roast cubed pumpkin for 1 hr in an oven; then puree it in a blender. Alternatively, use canned one.)

for decoration: eg. grated orange peel , crushed walnuts , whipped cream (36%)

Preheat the oven to C 180 degrees. Put the ricotta cheese into a large bowl, add orange zest and extract if you’re using , add the flour and mix on low speed mixer. Then add sugar and mix again . Add one egg each time mixing just for the ingredients to join. At the end add mashed pumpkin.

Place shortcrust pastry in a baking tray and sprinkle cinnamon over the surface of the tart. Add the cheese-pumpkin mixture and put in the oven. Bake for about 35 – 40 minutes or until the mixture is solid.

Baked tart sprinkle with grated orange peel , cut into portions, decorate with meringue or whipped cream.


			

			
								


	

																


	
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Junkie Poe

					
		

			
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I love dark and gloomy writings so I’ve been checking on E.A Poe’s biography..


Older people are always whinging about how rotten the youths are due to drugs & alcohol overdose. Nothing can beat Edgar Allan Poe; first, he nearly died in  who died in 1848 from drugs overdose (laudanum) , he was a celebrity well known as depraved alcoholic, junkie madman, who was being found on the streets of Baltimore in the state of delirium. He died at the age of 40 and the death cause is still disputed and the possible causes are: suicide, murder, cholera, rabies, syphilis, influenza, hypoglycemia, heart disease, poisoning, apoplexy, epilepsy, brain tumor, diabetes or alcohol & drugs overuse and finally, that he became a victim of cooping (intoxicated by force in order to cooperate with some politic party)..  Nice.That is exactly what you’d expect from somebody who wrote ‘the Black cat’ and others.