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Banbury Tarts

From With a saucepan over the sea, 1902

Serves 12

Banbury is celebrated for this kind of tart.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from With a saucepan over the sea (1902) by Adelaide Keen, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BANBURY TARTS. (England.) Banbury, of nursery fame, is celebrated for a certain kind of tart or turnover which its bakers have sold for many years. Beat J^ pound butter to a cream, with i pound of candied orange and lemon peel, cut fine, i pound currants, ^ ounce of cinnamon, and i ounce of allspice. Make some puflT paste, quite rich, set it on ice overnight, and roll it, very thin, cut into squares. Fill these with the mincemeat, fold into triangles, pinch the edges, dust with sugar and yolk of egg

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