Orange and Almond Tart

Name: Orange and Almond Tart
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: icing sugar; 1 medium-size, thin-skinned orange; 4 tablespoons (4 x 15 ml spoons) double cream; ½ small thin-skinned lemon; 1 large egg (size 1-2); 3 oz (75 g) caster sugar; ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml spoon) ground cloves; 2 oz (50 g) ground almonds; 5 oz (150 g) butter, plus extra for greasing; 3 tablespoons (3 x 15 ml spoons) caster sugar; 8 oz (250 g) plain flour; 2-3 oz (50-75 g) whole blanched almonds; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) water

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Cooking for Christmas

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1978

About

Here is something lovely to serve either instead of mince pies or simply as a pudding. Like mince pies, it goes beautifully with brandy butter. As with mince pies also the tart can be made well in advance, frozen and then re-heated before serving.

Ingredients

For the pastry

8 oz (250 g) plain flour
3 tablespoons (3 x 15

Pie
Vegetarian
Christmas
December

Method

Lightly butter a 9½-inch (24 cm), loose-based, aluminium, fluted flan tin. To make the pasty, sift the flour in a bowl. Stir in the caster sugar. Gently melt the butter with the water in a saucepan. Then p