Pecan Tarts

Ingredients

• 1% lbs. butter
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• *% teaspoon soda
• 2 cups pecans
• 4 cups sugar
• 2 cups water
• 1 lemon
• 30 Zwieback
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• % teaspoon cloves

Method

1. 1

   Make syrup with water and sugar.

2. 2

   Cook to 223 degrees, add lemon and cook to 226.

3. 3

   Grind Zwieback and add to syrup.

4. 4

   Add spices and nuts.

5. 5

   Let cool.

6. 6

   Cream butter, add flour, soda and baking powder alternately with warm milk.

7. 7

   (Add yeast to milk.) Press dough into tart pans and fill with Zwieback mixture.

8. 8

   Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Shallowford cookery (1951) by Marie Koury, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pecan Tarts Dough: 250) bse Louy Vo icupyan bs 1% lbs. butter * cake yeast (dis- 1 tablespoon baking solved in small powder amount of water) *% teaspoon soda Syrup: 2 cups pecans 1 teaspoon cinnamon 4 cups sugar % teaspoon cloves 2 cups water 30 Zwieback 1 lemon

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