Fruit Tart

This recipe is for a nine inch pie shell. To keep things simple, you can buy a packaged shortbread pie shell at your local grocery store or supermarket. I've only ever seen these pie crusts in nine inch form, but there "may" be other sizes. Of course too, you can make your own pie crust to whatever size you prefer, and then adjust the other ingredients accordingly.    

Ingredients:

1 nine inch shortbread pie shell
vanilla pastry cream*
kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced
blueberries
strawberries, sliced (not the small bottom pieces)
2 to 3 tablespoons thick apricot (or peach or mango) preserves

Put the vanilla pastry cream into the pie shell and smooth it out. Spread a thin layer of the preserves over the top of the pastry cream (middle photo below). You can arrange the fruit in whatever pattern you'd like. 

* To make vanilla pastry cream, here is the link to that recipe:
https://pontificating-randy.blogspot.com/2019/09/vanilla-pastry-cream.html

WORD HISTORY:
Service-This is the noun (much later also a verb), and it is related to "serf," a Latin-derived word borrowed by English from French. "Service" goes back to Indo European "serwuo/serwo," meaning, "guardian, protector;" thus also, "shepherd." This gave its Italic offspring "serwo," meaning, "shepherd," and this gave Latin "servus," the meaning of which, "slave," seems to have evolved "perhaps" from a shepherd's devotion to his flock to the point of servitude? "Servus" gave Latin "servitium," which meant, "the state of being in servitude or being a slave;" thus also, "slavery." This passed to Latin-based Old French as "servise," meaning, "servitude," but also, "a religious ceremony of devotion (servitude) to God." This was borrowed by English, likely with reinforcement by the Latin term, circa 1100. Many meanings developed as time passed, like: "the performance of assistance to someone, including the serving of food," "duty as a knight (usually in servitude to a noble/feudal lord)," which then broadened into any "military duty," "dishes and eating utensils" (now more often for tea or coffee), and others. The verb form developed from the noun, but not until circa 1900.