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 Shortcrust pastry base covered with red jam and filled with dense almond-flavoured wheatflour egg sponge mixture, baked, with a thin topping of toasted nuts, water ice, or other similar. The name only seems to have become commonplace in the 1960's, though it is clearly a development of the earlier Bakewell Pudding.  Bakewell Tart. Photo by 'Brynn' The earliest receipt we can find (below) uses the name 'Bakewell Tart', but is based on the puff pastry of the Bakewell Pudding form and has no almonds.  Original Receipt from 'King Edward's Cookery Book', by Florence George of King Edward School, Birmingham, about 1901.Bakewell Tart. Rough puff pastry 2 tablespoonfuls jam. 1 egg, its weight in butter, sugar and flour Glace icing Line a tin plate 9 inches in diameter with the puff pastry, work up the edges, spread the middle with jam. Cream the butter and sugar well together, add the egg and a little of the flour in which the baking-powder and salt have been mixed, beat well, add the rest of flour. Spread this mixture over the jam. Bake for about half an hour in a good oven, then pour the glace icing over the top. The modern form of Bakewell Tart seems to have been popularised in Scotland from the end of the 19th Century ... Original Receipt in 'The Dundee Courier' - Friday 27 October 1899Bakewell Tart.—Get some paste made follows: — One pound of flour and threequarters of a pound of butter or margarine; rub in little of the butter, and mix with the yolk of an egg, the juice of a lemon, and water. Mix the whole into a paste, and roll out into a sheet. Work in the remainder of the butter, and roll over three times. Lay aside to set, roll out on a plate, and fill inside with raspberry jam. Mix in a separate basin two eggs, four ounces of sugar, and two ounces of ground almonds. Put this over the top of the jam, dust over with sugar, and bake in slow oven for about half hour, and serve. See: Alderman's Pudding Bakewell Pudding Bakewell Tart Bakewells  2014  |
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