Milk tarts or melktert is a dessert that consists of a sweet pastry crust and a custard filling that is made from milk, eggs, sugar, and flour. Milk tarts have a higher ratio of milk to eggs than other custard tarts like the Portuguese Custard Tart (Pastel de nata).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe milk tart as we know it today originated among the settlers in the Dutch Cape Colony (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) in the 17th century. This tart was most likely developed from the u003ca href=u0022https://www.tasteatlas.com/mattentaartu0022 target=u0022_blanku0022 rel=u0022noreferrer noopeneru0022u003eDutch mattentaartu003c/au003e which is a sort of cheesecake-like dessert.