Crostata: Italian Tart Pastry
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The crostata — Italian shortcrust tart filled with jam, pastry cream, or ricotta — uses a pasta frolla (sweet shortcrust) that is more enriched than French pâte sablée and has a more tender, crumbly, slightly sandy texture — the texture that the word frolla (from the same root as "fragile") describes. The butter is worked cold into the flour and sugar rather than beaten in, producing the characteristic crumbly texture through the same mechanism as pie shortcrust: fat encasing flour particles prevents gluten development.
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