Blueberry Tart

Ingredients & Directions Text Only I’ve never even tasted a blueberry, but this looks like a good introduction… For the pastry, cut 125 g softened mono-unsaturated margarine into 250 g flour. Add up to 70 ml cold water, roll the dough into a ball and leave in a cool place to rest for 15 minutes. […]

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Tropical Fruit Coconut Explosion Tart

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 Recipe Crumbly Tart Pastry -With Almonds; see * Note 1 1 1/2 c Coconut Pastry Cream; see * -Note 1 4 Or more cups Cutup assorted -tropical; see * Note 2 Fruit 1/4 c Guava or apricot jam; melted -and strained * Note 1: See the “Crumbly Sweet Pastry (Pate Sablee) […]

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An Early Apple Tart England, 1381

Ingredients & Directions 4 Apples 3/4 c Sugar 4 Pears 1 tb Lemon juice 1 c Water 1/2 ts Nutmeg 1 tb Sugar 1/2 ts Ginger 2 tb Flour 1/4 ts Saffron 1/2 c Chopped dried figs A little red wine or rum 1/2 c Raisins 1 1/2 lb (9″) flaky pastry 1 ts Cinnamon […]

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Trio Des Poivres Roti En Tartelette

Ingredients & Directions -SHORTCRUST PASTRY- 200 g Plain flour 1 lg Pinch of salt 1 lg Pinch of caster sugar 100 g Butter; cut into 1cm cubes, ; cold from the ; refrigerator 1 Egg; lightly beaten 2 ts Water -ROASTED PEPPER FILLING- 1 sm Red pepper; cut in half -seeded, ; core left in […]

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Cream Custard Tart

Ingredients & Directions Doucetes. Take Creme a gode cupfulle, & put it on a straynour, thanne take yolkes of Eyroun, and put ther-to, & a lytel mylke; then strayne it throw a straynour in-to a bolle; then take Sugre y-nowe, & put ther-to, or ellys hony forde faute of Sugre, than coloure it with Safroun; […]

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Treacle Tart

Ingredients & Directions -PASTRY- 8 oz Plain flour 1 Pinches salt 5 oz Unsalted butter; diced 4 ts Caster sugar 4 tb Iced water 2 Egg yolks FILLING 1 md Tin golden syrup Grated zest and juice of 1 -lemon 16 Heaped tbsp fresh -breadcrumbs 1 tb Freshly grated and pulped -root ginger Sift the […]

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Fresh Fruit Tart With Banana-‘cream’ Filling~

Ingredients & Directions -CRUST- 1 1/2 c Fine graham-cracker crumbs 3 tb Canola oil (about 8 full-size crackers 2 tb Honey FILLING 1/3 c Orange juice 3 To 4 Plums, sliced 2/3 Envelope Plain gelatin 1 c Red raspberries 5 lg Ripe bananas 1/2 c Blackberries or black Juice of 1/2 lemon (about 1 -raspberries […]

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Tomato, Thyme And Gruyre Tart

Ingredients & Directions 2 Rectangles of puff pastry; -13cm x 15cm 1 Egg yolk 1 ts Dijon mustard 60 g Gruyre; shaved with a ; vegetable peeler ; (2oz) 2 lg Or 4 small tomatoes; -blanched and peeled 1/2 ts Thyme leaves Malden sea salt 2 tb Olive oil Preheat the oven to 180?C/350?F/gas mark […]

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Fresh Chile & Corn Fritters W/julienne Of Tart Indian App

Ingredients & Directions ———————–CHILE AND CORN FRITTERS———————– 4 Green anaheim chiles 1 ts Salt 3 c Corn kernels, scraped from 1/2 ts White pepper -the cob 3 tb All purpose flour 3 Green serrano chiles, seeded 3/4 c Clarified butter -and chopped JULIENNE OF APPLES 1 tb Unsalted butter -julienned (do not peel) 6 sm […]

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Tomato, Basil And Cheese Tart

Ingredients & Directions FOR THE SHELL 1 1/4 c All-purpose flour 3/4 Stick cold unsalted butter; -cut into bits (6 ; tablespoon) 2 tb Cold vegetable shortening 1/4 lb Sliced lean bacon; cooked, -drained, ; cooled, and ; crumbled 1/4 ts Salt Raw rice for weighting the -shell FOR THE FILLING 4 lg Firm-ripe tomatoes; […]

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