Old-fashioned Currant Tart

Ingredients

1/2 c butter
1/2 c sugar
1 ts vanilla extract
1 egg yolk
1 1/4 c cake flour
1 c milk
3 egg yolks
3 tb flour
1 ts vanilla
3 pt currants
1 c currant jelly
2 tb kirsch
1/2 sugar in a saucepan over low hea whisk the yolks with the remaining sugar
3/8 boiling milk the yolk mixture
11 tart

Instructions

beans and continue baking 5 minutes more to color the pastry. Do not over-bake. Cool the shell in the pan. Spread the cooled pastry cream on the cooled tart shell. Arrange the currants on the pastry cream. Bring the jelly and kirsch to a boil and strain. Reduce to thicken if necessary. Brush the glaze on the berries. Edge the tart with the almonds and sprinkle the almonds with the confectioners' sugar.