Treacle Tart

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6–8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook

By Annie Gray

Published 2019

  • About

A mainstay of the servants’ hall, treacle tart featured in English cookery books from the end of the Victorian period. It could be made with almost anything as long as treacle was included, and it came in deep and shallow crusts, with and without a lid. In this simple version, which comes from Warne’s New Model Cookery, published in 1925, a thin layer of sweet filling is sandwiched between two sheets of flaky pastry. Because of its slender profile, this teatime treat required no fanc

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