Old-fashioned honey tart

Name: Old-fashioned honey tart
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Serves: 8–10
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 1 lemon, grated rind and juice; 1 egg, beaten; 9 tablespoons honey; 150 g breadcrumbs (approx 3 slices thick-cut bread or 4 slices medium-cut); 300–400 g fresh sweet pastry, unrolled (see tips)

Preparation info

Serves:
8–10

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

Lucy's Food

By Lucy Cufflin

Published 2013

About

Because it was hard to find golden syrup in France where I lived, I used honey instead in a recipe for a classic treacle tart. It works wonderfully!

Ingredients

300–400 g fresh sweet pastry, unrolled (see tips)
9 tablespoons honey

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Roll out the pastry with a rolling pin on a floured work suface. This pastry may well break up, but do not worry as you can simply push it back together – it behaves more like shortbread than pastry.
Line a 25cm tin with baking parchment and gently press the pastry into the tin.
Warm the honey over a low heat in a saucepan. Add the breadcrumbs, grated