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Blackberry meringue cake (tourte aux mures)

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Translated from Swiss magazine 'Betty Bossi' June 1992
This is a wonderfully summery cake, a very typical swiss "fruit mixed with meringue" layer on top of a lemon biscuit base.
Far easier than it looks, if you can manage to fluffy egg whites with sugar, you can do it.

It can also be done with redcurrants, although i am not sure what amount is needed.


Ingredients

Makes 6 servings

  • 175g butter (or margarine)
  • 250g sugar (in 2 sets of 125g)
  • salt (i tend to forget it)
  • 3 eggs, separated
  • 1 lemon, grated zest (rind)
  • 400g blackberries (you can use frozen, but if you do don't thaw them unless you want purple meringue)
  • 250g flour

Preparation (Some HTML is OK)

Use a circle cake tin, not too large as it is nice to have decent layers.

BASE
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Stir the butter to make a soft cream - by hand or machine (if using a machine, be aware that this is a rather sticky dough so you will lose quite a bit or have a long scraping job)
Add the first 125g of sugar, a pinch of salt, egg yolks and lemon zest.
Mix well until the yolks and the sugar are well mixed (yolk color turns a lot paler, although if like me you use unbleached sugar it's not very noticeable).
Add the flour and assemble the dough without kneading.

Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees

Pat or roll dough flat directly on the tin base (it cant be moved as it will stick and fall apart. I use the plastic wrap to make sure the rolling pin doesnt stick). Prick generously with a fork (so it stays flat while cooking). Close the tin edge.

Bake in oven for 15 minutes

MERINGUE
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Whisk the egg whites + a pinch of salt to a firm mass (feel free to use a drop of lemon juice or cream of tartar or whatever trick you are familiar with)
Add half of the second 125g of sugar (roughly) and continue to beat until you get a shiny firm mass. Add the other half of the sugar without beating (just mix in) and the blackberries (gently).

Pour this mass over the cake base, and put back in the oven at the same temperature for 30 minutes.

Take the cake out of the oven. While the cake is still hot, run a blade along the edges to make sure the meringue layer does not stick to the edges and remove the circle side. Be careful and do this on a easy surface, as some juice may leak, depending on the berries. Wait till the cake is cool to remove the bottom (the base can be crumbly when warm).

Serve cool and enjoy :D

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Comments (4)

  • iphigenie (recipe author) said on 24 Mar 2009:

    Making this today, so will try to take some pictures - although presentation is not my strongest point, be warned

  • artant said on 11 Jul 2009:

    This looks delicious! A question though: how much flour, and what type?

  • iphigenie (recipe author) said on 04 Aug 2009:

    oh, you're right, the flour went missing. I'll get that asap

  • iphigenie (recipe author) said on 24 Dec 2011:

    it's 250g



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