Banana Tartlets

Ingredients

• 1 lb. flour
• ½ lb. ground almonds
• ½ lb. butter
• 1 tablespoonful sugar
• 1 yolk of egg
• pinch of salt
• juice of a lemon
• cold water

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter into the flour as for short paste, stir in the ground almonds, sugar, salt, and lemon juice, mix the yolk with the cold water and make all into a paste.

2. 2

   Roll out to ½ inch in thickness.

3. 3

   Have ready eighteen patty tins and line them with the paste.

4. 4

   Peel and slice very thinly four bananas, put a ½ lb. apricot jam and one tablespoonful water into a pan, make it hot, and rub through a wire sieve.

5. 5

   Add to the jam when it has been rubbed through the sieve, the banana slices, and three parts fill the lined patty tins with the mixture.

6. 6

   Bake in a quick oven from fifteen to twenty minutes.

7. 7

   If served cold, these tartlets are much nicer garnished neatly with whipped cream.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Sea Cookery (1911) by Richard Bond, page 79. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 lb. flour 1- teaspoonful almond essence 1 glass brandy •J teaspoonful baking powder Blanch and chop the almonds, shred the peel, clean the currants, and seed the raisins. Line a cake tin with paper, then cream the butter and sugar, beat in the eggs one at a time, add the fruit, peel, and almonds. Mix in the flour and baking powder last of all. Put the mixture into the paper lined tin and bake in a moderate oven from five to six hours. FRENCH TARTS. 2 eggs 2 ozs. sugar 2 ozs. flour 1 oz. butter £ teaspoonful baking powder lemon essence apricot jam 6 almonds dessicated cocoanut Cream the butter with half of the sugar, add one egg, and beat well, add the remaining sugar and egg and beat well again. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and a few drops of lemon essence last. Have ready twelve greased patty tins, half fill them with the mixture, and bake in a quick oven ten minutes. Turn them out of the tins and allow to cool. Warm a little apricot jam and spread some of it thinly over one side of the cakes and roll them in the cocoanut. put a little of the jam on the top of each, stick a split almond on. that, and serve. 131 BANANA TARTLETS. lb. flour \ lb. ground almonds £ lb. butter 1 tablespoonful sugar 1 yolk of egg pinch of salt juice of a lemon cold water

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