Next
to Yorkshire Puddings, homemade Yorkshire Curd Tart
is prized above the rest in God’s own Country. Originally baked for
Whitsuntide, when there were feasts and fair days across Yorkshire villages to
use the leftover curds from cheese making, the filling is made from curd cheese
and flavoured with currants, allspice and rosewater. These ingredients are for a 10 inch/25 cms pie dish or 12 small curd tartlets.
Yorkshire Curd Tart
6oz/175g
shortcrust pastry
10z/25g
butter
3oz/75g
caster sugar
8oz/250g
curd cheese
2oz/50g
currants
2
eggs, beaten
¼
to ½ tsp ground allspice or nutmeg
1
tsp rosewater (optional)
Line
a dish or pie plate (or individual tartlets if preferred) with the pastry.
Allow to rest while making the filling. Mix the curds, currants, lemon zest and
allspice (or nutmeg) together. Beat the eggs and add to the mixture, Melt the
butter and add with the sugar. Pour the mixture into the pastry shell and bake
in a moderate oven 180C (fan 160C)/Mark 4/350F for 20-25 minutes until set.
Allow to cool before serving.
Meryl says : You can find curd cheese at most large supermarkets and online grocery shopping.
Meryl says : You can find curd cheese at most large supermarkets and online grocery shopping.
I posted this recipe for George on
the occasion his retirement. I wish him a long and happy one and hope
he'll have lots of fun baking! He writes
'Yorkshire Curd Tart ... gives me such fond memories of my childhood in North Yorkshire. My mother made this and my Auntie Ellen Codling who ran the tea rooms at Shepherds Hall Lealholm near Whitby, assisted by my grandmother. What memories ... tastes and smell remind of us of such wonderful things in our lives.'
'Yorkshire Curd Tart ... gives me such fond memories of my childhood in North Yorkshire. My mother made this and my Auntie Ellen Codling who ran the tea rooms at Shepherds Hall Lealholm near Whitby, assisted by my grandmother. What memories ... tastes and smell remind of us of such wonderful things in our lives.'
Marcel Proust had the same
idea about Madeleines. Have you got a memory linked to cake?
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