I had a request recently to make Manchester Tart. This is a dessert that was often served at part of our school dinners when I was a child. It was common all over the country it seems, probably because it is simple to make, cheap to make and tastes very good. Manchester Tart is made […]
I recently tasted my first Portuguese Custard Tart and it was simply wonderful. Now we do have custard tarts in England, usually made with shortcrust pastry. But these Portuguese ones, with puff pastry, are very different. Baked until the top is bubbling and with brown patches on the top, formed as the custard bakes, they […]
Pottering around on the internet, as one is wont to do, I saw a recipe for something called Basque Cake or Gâteau Basque , of which I hadn’t heard before. So I set about improving my, clearly lacking, knowledge. In that endeavour I found the recipe which I have used, at Bruno’s Kitchen, where Bruno Albouze made one […]
I found a recipe for these Custard Cherry Biscuits on Flickr. I was paging through some photos using Google search and saw the photo. Visiting the website that the photo is on provided a recipe as well. It all looked very simple, so I thought I would give it a try. The result turned out […]
Now doesn’t that seem a silly name for a recipe? I found the recipe on BBC Good Food and, when I read it, thought that they sounded quite interesting. The bake is a sort of shortbread, very light and crumbly, and the filling is a butter cream type with some custard powder to add some flavour. […]