Bakewell Tart

Name: Bakewell Tart
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1 lb. (½ k.) short or rough puff pastry; 2 tablespoons strawberry jam; 1 lb. (½ k.) short or rough puff pastry; 2 oz. (60 g.) self-raising flour; 1 egg, and its weight in butter and sugar; 1 egg, and its weight in butter and sugar; 1 egg, and its weight in butter and sugar; ¼ lb. (120 g.) glacé icing

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cookery of England

By Elisabeth Ayrton

Published 1975

About

The Bakewell tart came originally from Bakewell in Derbyshire. Some early nineteenth-century recipes suggest using half flour and half ground almonds, which makes a richer mixture. The tart was intended for high tea and is in fact a cross between a cake and a pudding.

Ingredients

1 lb. (½ k.) short or rough puff pastry
2 tablespoons

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegetarian
England

Method

Line a tin or enamel plate 9 inches (22 cm.) in diameter with the pastry, work up the edges, and spread the middle with jam. Cream the butter and sugar well together, add the egg and a little of the flour,