[Liz]

RUFFLED MILK PIE / SPIRALED PHYLLO CRUST / Martha's recipe

CRUST Use 6 tb clarified Butter. 12-14 phyllo sheets hand-pleated together. Starting in buttered pan center spiral first sheet.

METHOD Place phyllo sheet on work surface long ways. W/ hands, loosely pleat/ruffle phyllo into long cylindrical shape. Place in center of buttered 14" round cake pan creating a spiral. Repeat, spiraling outward to cover bottom. Pastry brush clarified butter all over phyllo; sprinkle w/ 1/4 tea cinnamon; bake golden 350 deg 25-30 min.

CUSTARD FILLING heat 3 c whole milk; barely begins to boil; remove offheat. Whisk 6 lge eggs, generous cup superfine sugar. Gradually add heated milk, whisking constantly; whisk in tsp vanilla. Spoon over baked phyllo, evenly covering surface. Bake filling set 25-30 min. Dust with conf and cinnamon.

SERVE immediately.

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TARTA DE ROSAS---Form phyllo into rose shapes.

[miss marmelstein]

How beautiful! Can that woman bake or can that woman bake?!

[Jamestown1630]

That’s beautiful.

[Yaelle]

That is beautiful! I can’t eat phyllo but what a pretty idea!

I did not know it was national pie day! Wish I had time to cook. But I do not.

I added the condensed milk to my modified maida heater pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, but I am not sure it brings anything. Maybe it needed to be caramelized to really bring another flavor in. The filling is already so flavorful that frankly I couldn’t taste the new addition. Did you by any chance caramelize the condensed milk first? That might have done it.