What is pate sablee?

by Cookthink

Pâte sablée is the richest of the French short pastry crusts. It is used to make sweet flans and tarts. A pâte sablée is made with butter, flour or powdered almonds, butter, egg, sugar and flavored with vanilla. It has more calories than a pâte brisée or pâte sucrée and the most flavor.