MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02
 
      Title: Sveskjuterta (Prune Torte)
 Categories: Icelandic, Fruits, Dairy
      Yield: 8 servings
 
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      2 c  Flour
  1 1/4 c  Butter or margarine
      1 tb Vinegar
    1/2 c  Water

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      1 c  Milk
    1/2 ts Vanilla
      1    Egg yolk
      1 tb Sugar
      2 tb Flour
    1/2 lb Prunes
      1 c  Whipping cream (up to 2 c)
           Confectioner's sugar
           Beaten egg
 
  Soak prunes overnight in cold water, barely to cover.  Cook in same
  water until soft.  Remove pits (if any) and mash.  Cool and add sugar
  to taste.
  
  Pastry:  Cream butter.  Sift flour and add 1/2 of creamed butter.
  Mix as for pastry.  Mix vinegar and water and add, a little at a
  time, to the flour and butter mixture, blending in with knives or a
  pastry blender. Knead until smooth.  Cover bowl with cloth and let
  stand at cool room temperature while making filling.
  
  Cream filling:  Beat egg yolk with sugar. Add flour.  Heat milk and
  add very slowly to egg, sugar and flour mixture.  Stirring
  constantly, allow to come to a boil and cook until thickened.  Add
  vanilla.  Cool.
  
  Roll out pastry on a floured board into a large oblong shape.  Spread
  oe third of remaining butter on middle half of pastry.  Fold both end
  quarters toward center.  Fold again like an envelope.  Cover with
  cloth and let rest on floured board for a few minutes.  Repeat this
  process two more times, using remaining butter.  If butter becomes
  too soft, put in a cool place for a short time.  Roll out and cut
  into three circles of the same size, using plate or round pan for
  pattern.  Place one circle on a baking pan.  Brush with beaten egg.
  Roll out remaining dough and cut into strips with a knife or fluted
  pastry cutter.  The strips will be used as a lattice-work decoration
  on top of the torte.  Bake rounds and strips in a moderately hot oven
  (400F) until golden brown.  Cool.  Place torte shell on a serving
  plate.  Fill center with cream filling.  Around filling spread mashed
  prunes on top.  Decorate top with sweetened whipped cream and spread
  around sides.
  
 
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