Moravian Citron Tartlets

Don’t get seared - these aren’t made with crystallised citron. Here the word is a corruption of zitrone, the German word for lemon, used by the nineteenth-century German-speaking Moravian settlers of the Winston-Salem area in North Carolina. I learned about these years ago from Beth Tartan, the pen name of Elizabeth Hedgecock Sparks, who was for many years the food editor of the Winston-Salem newspaper and an expert on the cooking of the region. This is adapted from her book