Name: Custard Tarts
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Makes: about 12 tarts
Ingredients: 120 g / 4 oz plain flour; 30 g / 1 oz caster sugar; 60 g / 2 oz butter, softened; 1 egg yolk; 300 ml / 10 fl oz single cream; 2 large eggs, beaten; pinch of freshly grated nutmeg; pinch of ground cinnamon; pinch of ground mace; rose-water and orange flower water

Preparation info

Makes: about
12
tarts

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

Cakes

By Geraldene Holt

Published 2011

About

The filling for this classic recipe of the English kitchen is inspired by Hannah Glasse’s baked custard in The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy (1747). The custard is a simple but lovely blend of eggs and cream flecked with nutmeg and cinnamon and scented with rose-petal and orange flower water.