A delicious dessert recipe found in “Robert Carrier’s Kitchen
Cook Book” published in1980
Traditional gâteau basque is a tart of unusual, cake-like pastry filled with crème pâtissière and the exquisitely flavoured cherries of the ltxassou region – Substitute 700 g /1 1/2 lb canned Morello cherries if you wish, removing the stones and drying the fruit well with absorbent paper.
RecipeReminiscing 