My special JAM CROSTATA

After my previous post, I realized that I have never published
my special crostata recipe.
This is my signature recipe that has been in my kitchen since
I started baking.

CROSTATA DI MARMELLATA


Ingredients:

300g flour
100g white sugar
150g butter
1 pinch of salt (if butter is unsalted)
1 egg
2TBS of Martini liquor (it can be replaced with another egg)

1 pot of strawberry jam (or any other flavor jam)

Switch on oven and warm it up at 180 C or 350 F.

On a wooden board, make a fountain with the flour then add, in the middle,
sugar, egg and liquor and mix them with your hand ( I love using
my hands!)or a fork. Add softened butter
(you can either leave it out of fridge for few hours or soften it in
the microwave for 20 seconds straight from the fridge) and mix all the
ingredients together to obtain a nice soft dough.
Make dough in a ball shape , cover it with film/foil and refrigerate
for ten minutes.
Sprinkle wooden board with flour.
Return the dough on it and cut it in half.
Make a thin round disc with one part of the dough using a rolling pin.
Transfer the dough disc in a 18 cm tart baking tray previously buttered.
With a spoon, spread a layer of jam on the disc (you will use 3/4 of the jam).
Flatten the left over dough with the rolling pin and cut thin stripes
out of it to decorate the top of the tart. Use the stripes to make a grid like
pattern on top of the tart.
Bake it in the oven for 30 minutes or till the top is golden.

You can slice the crostata in squares and keep it for a week in a tin.