Apricot Bread and Butter Tarts

• 12 slices of bread
• 3 oz / 85 g butter, softened<

With a pastry cutter, cut out rounds of bread to fit individual tart tins. Grease the tins with half the softened butter, and spread the rest of the butter on the bread, one side only. Roll the edges of the bread in the sugar and fit them gently into the tart tins, butter side up, taking care that they don’t break. Place a small piece of greaseproof paper in the base of each tart and a few drie