Treacle Tart Recipe |
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You will need..... 4 oz. plain flour pinch salt 1 oz. lard 1 oz. butter For the filling: Preparation Time 8 oz. golden syrup 15 minutes 2 oz. fresh white breadcrumbs grated rind of 2 lemons
Cooking Time 2
teaspoons lemon juice
25 minutes
Oven setting
400ºF; Gas Mark 6
Sieve flour
and salt into a bowl. Add fats cut into small pieces and rub them into
flour until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add water and mix to a
firm dough. Roll out pastry thinly on a floured table and use to line a
7-inch ovenglass flan dish. Re-roll pastry trimmings and cut in circles
with 3/4-inch fluted cutter. Brush underside of each with water and
arrange, overlapping, round edge of dish. Mix together
syrup, breadcrumbs, lemon rind and juice. Spoon filling into fan. Bake in a
moderately hot oven for about 25 minutes, until the pastry is pale
golden.
Quick Tip
When
using an ovenglass dish, to make sure the underneath of a tart or
double pastry pie is brown, place on a metal baking sheet that has been
heated in the oven whilst baking.
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