Fruit Tart

Ingredients

• 6 oz. flour
• 2 oz. raw sugar
• 3 oz. of margarine or butter
• ½ teaspoonful of baking powder
• pinch salt
• 1 teaspoonful of sugar
• 6 apples
• cold water

Method

1. 1

   Peel, core, and cut up apples, and half-fill pie-dish; add sugar and a little water.

2. 2

   Pile the apples well up in dish.

3. 3

   Make pastry.

4. 4

   Rub the butter into the flour, and add dry ingredients.

5. 5

   Make into a very stiff paste, mixing with a dinner knife.

6. 6

   Roll out a little larger than pie-dish.

7. 7

   Cut edges off for rims.

8. 8

   Wet edges of dish, and place cut edges out overlapping each piece.

9. 9

   Place on cover, after wetting edges.

10. 10

    Press together and cut carefully round.

11. 11

    Brush with egg and bake in a quick oven at first; cover with paper when pastry is a golden brown.

12. 12

    It takes from half to three-quarters of an hour.

13. 13

    It may be sprinkled with castor sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Berridge House recipe book (1910), page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

\ teaspoonful of baking powder may be added. Jam Roley D 34 COOKERY RECIPES Boiled Fruit Pudding i 6 oz. suet crust, 2 tablespoonsful of raw 4 or 5 apples, sugar, a little water. Method. — Grease a basin, and prepare pudding- cloth. Make suet crust, and put aside a small piece for top. Roll remainder into round. Flour, and fold it in four. Line basin, pressing it care- fully in to avoid cracks. Peel, core, and cut up apples. Half fill basin, add sugar and water (about one tablespoonful). Fill with apples. Trim any rough edges from pastry, and add to piece for top. Wet edges. Roll out round, and fit it in against lining, and overlap the edges. Cover with cloth, leaving a fold across. Tie firmly half way down basin. Draw up edges of cloth, and tie together to form a handle. Boil for two and a half hours. Turn on to hot dish. LESSON XVII Fruit Tart 6 oz. flour, 2 oz. raw sugar. 3 oz. of margarine or £ teaspoonful of baking butter, powder, pinch salt, i teaspoonful of sugar, 6 apples, cold water

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