Ann Taruschio, Franco Taruschio

Queen Charlotte’s Tart

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Leaves from The Walnut Tree: Cooking of a Lifetime
Leaves from The Walnut Tree

By Ann Taruschio and Franco Taruschio

Published 1993

  • About

This is an adaptation from a recipe from Lady Llanover’s First Principles of Good Cookery, 1867.

Ingredients

Pastry

  • 175 g/6 oz flour
  • 90 g/3

Method

Sieve flour and sugar into a bowl, rub in the butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Use your hands lightly. Beat the egg and add chilled water, sprinkle over dough and work in lightly with your fingertips. Leave the dough in a refrigerator for half an hour.

Grate all the peel from the oranges and lemon. Squeeze the juice from the oranges and lemon, mix with the grated peel. Beat t