Name: Gingery Treacle Tart
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Makes 1 large (28 cm/11 in) tart
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 110g/3¾oz/½ cup butter (salted or unsalted) chilled and cut into cubes, plus extra for greasing; 225g/8oz/1¾ cups plain/all-purpose flour; 1 egg, beaten; 450g/1lb/1⅓ cups golden syrup/light corn syrup; 1 tsp ground ginger, or grated fresh root ginger, or to taste; zest of ½ orange and about 4 tsp of its juice; cream or custard, to serve; 85g/3oz/1½ cups freshly made Real Bread crumbs, coarse rather than fine; zest of ½ lemon and about 2 tsp of its juice

Preparation info

Makes
1
large ( 28 cm 11 in ) tart

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

Slow Dough, Real Bread

By Chris J L Young

Published 2016

About

Used as a lure by The Childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, this classic British pudding is all sorts of wrong. The main ingredient is a by-product of industrial sugar refining. On the misleading marketing front, it doesn’t however contain any treacle: just traditional golden syrup, a British favourite since the 19th century. You could replace half of the syrup with honey, not that it’d make it any healthier.