Baking with Dorie: An Easy Fruit Tart Recipe

Ingredients (12)

• Best-quality strawberry jam
• One 9-inch tart shell (see recipe below), fully baked, cooled and removed from pan
• About 1 quart ripe strawberries
• Sugar (optional)
• Kirsch, fraise or framboise eau-de-vie or crème de cassis (optional)
• Freshly ground black pepper, a little fresh basil or mint, or finely grated lemon or lime zest (optional)
• Crème fraîche or lightly whipped cream
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 stick plus 1 tablespoon (9 tablespoons; 4 1/2 ounces) very cold (or frozen) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
• 1 large egg yolk