Name: Oldbury tarts
Yield: Makes 6
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 175 g demerara sugar; 700 g gooseberries (topped and tailed); 100 g lard; 300 ml hot water; 450 g plain flour

Preparation info

Makes
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Clarissa's Comfort Food

By Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 2008

About

This is a Gloucestershire recipe; I like to think the tarts are named after Sir John Oldbury, who was the model for Shakespeare’s Falstaff, but I fear this is only my whimsy.

Ingredients

For the Hot-Water Crust Pastry

450 g plain flour
100 g lard
300

Europe
United Kingdom
Gloucester
Dessert
London
Pie

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6.

To make the pastry, sift the flour into a mixing bowl. Melt the lard in a saucepan with the hot water and pour onto the flour. Mix quickly with a wooden spoon. When the mixture has got to a point when you can handle it, knead until th

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