9 oz Puff pastry
1 1/2 pt Milk
1 ts Sugar
1 ts Vanilla
1 c Sugar
4 Eggs; beaten
1 pn Salt
3/4 c Crushed almonds
1 tb Old rum
4 tb Softened butter
Prepare frangipane cream by boiling milk with sugar and vanilla. Combine
flour, sugar, eggs, and salt in a thick-bottomed saucepan and mix together
thoroughly. Gradually add the hot milk mixture and cook slowly for about 3
minutes, stirring all the time, until cream thickens. Pour the cream into a
bowl and stir in 3/4 cup crushed almonds, rum, and butter. Mix well.
Roll out puff pastry and cut into a 9 or 10 inch round. Cut two.
Mound up pastry cream in the center of bottom pastry, leaving a 3/4 pastry
ring around the edge. Place a small bean or plastic baby somewhere in the
crust to symbolize the infant Jesus. Place second round over cream filling
and seal around outside edges. Trace a pattern on the top of the dough with
the point of a knife and brush it with egg.
Bake in a 475 degree oven until the top is golden brown.
Yields
1 Servings