This crumbly, delicate pastry is the foundation for most of the sweet tarts in this chapter. It can be a little hard to handle, so if you are new to making pastry, I suggest you add the egg yolk.

Rules is rules. And the baker is advised to follow them. Should she care to produce a tender and tasty tart, she will mind the pate sablee rulebook. Pate sablee means sandy pastry. That’s because the ...