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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> French >> French

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. For pastry: Sift flour, salt and sugar into a large bowl. | 2. Add butter and shortening and cut in until mixture resembles coarse meal. | 3. Blend sour cream with ¼ cup water in small bowl. | 4. Add to flour mixture, stirring gently with fork. | 5. If necessary, add more water until dough is moist enough to gather into a ball. | 6. Transfer to lightly-floured work surface. | 7. Roll into 8 x 12 inch rectangle. | 8. Fold into thirds, as for business letter, rotate dough ¼ turn. | 9. Repeat rolling and folding once more. | 10. Wrap dough in foil and chill atleast 1 hour or for up to 3 days. | 11. Roll out on lightly-floured surface into 12 x 17 inch rectangle. | 12. Fit into a 10 x 15 x 1 inch pan (preferably black steel, if you have it). | 13. Crimp edge decoratively. | 14. Prick entire surface lightly with fork. | 15. Refrigerate for ½ an hour. | 16. Preheat oven to 390 degrees F. | 17. Line pastry with foil and fill with dried beans or pie weights. | 18. Bake 8 minutes. | 19. Remove pie weights and foil. | 20. Prick pastry lightly again. | 21. Bake until golden-brown, about 10-12 minutes longer. | 22. (can be prepared 6-8 hours ahead at this point) For filling: Cook bacon in large skillet over low heat until browned, about 8 minutes. | 23. Remove with a slotted spoon to keep dripping in the skillet. | 24. Add butter to skillet and increase heat to medium-low. | 25. Add onion, tossing to coat in butter and dripping. | 26. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft but not browned, about 25-30 minutes. | 27. Sprinkle with flour and stir 3-4 minutes. | 28. Add reserved bacon. | 29. Season lightly. | 30. (can be prepared 6-8 hours ahead to this point) Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. | 31. Spread onion mixture into crust. | 32. Whisk milk, eggs and cream to blend. | 33. Season with nutmeg and cayenne. | 34. Pour evenly over onion. | 35. Bake until filling is set and golden, 30-35 minutes. | 36. Serve warm. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
purpose flour	3	cups		-	-	-	-
salt	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
sugar	1	pinch		1.1471	0.2869	0.0	0.0
butter	3/4	cup	well-chilled cut	171.0	7.857	5.343	14.4
vegetable shortening	1/2	cup	chilled	922.5	0.0	0.0	102.5
cream	1/4	cup	sour	113.85	2.6622	1.403	11.1262
ice water	1/4	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
bacon	8	ounces	thickly-sliced cut	512.5588	4.2864	36.1513	38.3966
butter	2	tablespoons		171.0	7.857	5.343	14.4
onion	2	halved	cut	-	-	-	-
purpose flour	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
milk	1 1/4	1/4		186.05	14.579	9.6075	9.9735
egg	4			286.0	1.44	25.12	19.02
whipping cream	3/4	cup		262.8	2.6639999999999997	1.953	27.819000000000003
nutmeg	1/8	teaspoon	grated	1.4438	0.1355	0.0161	0.0999
cayenne pepper	1/8	teaspoon		0.7155	0.1274	0.027000000000000003	0.0389

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.