Tarts and Pastries

Everybody loves tarts and pastries, don’t they? They’ve always worked well for us at lunch time in The Parlour and at Cambo: a slice with a couple of salads is about as good a light lunch as a person can have. Tarts look impressive but they are very simple to make – with such great shop-bought pastry around, all you need to master are the fillings, and these are generally easily adaptable to what’s in season. You can use shop-bought pastry for all the recipes in this section and they’ll be as delicious – just make sure you get a good brand, preferably one that uses 100% butter. But making your own is a bit like making your own bread – really not that hard – and it’s kind of pleasing to know you’ve made the whole tart, from scratch, in all its crumbly glory.