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Shortcrust is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart, quiche, pie, or (in the British English sense) flan. Shortcrust pastry can be used to make both sweet and savory pies such as apple pie, quiche, lemon meringue or chicken pie. A sweetened version – using butter – is used in making spritz cookies.
This is a list of British desserts, i.e. desserts characteristic of British cuisine, the culinary tradition of the United Kingdom.The British kitchen has a long tradition of noted sweet-making, particularly with puddings, custards, and creams; custard sauce is called crème anglaise (English cream) in French cuisine
It is prepared using shortcrust pastry, with a thick filling made of golden syrup (also known as light treacle), breadcrumbs, and lemon juice or zest. The tart is normally served hot or warm with a scoop of clotted cream, ordinary cream, ice cream, or custard. Some modern recipes add cream, eggs, or both in order to create a softer filling.
Cumberland rum nicky is a sweet shortcrust pastry tart or pie, commonly filled with dates and stem ginger, flavoured with rum, and sweetened with brown sugar.Rum nickies are associated with the historic county of Cumberland (now part of Cumbria) in northwest England, and the ingredients used in their manufacture reflect the county's former significance as a major import and trading centre for ...
A Bakewell tart is an English confection consisting of a shortcrust pastry shell beneath layers of jam, frangipane, and a topping of flaked almonds. It is a variant of the Bakewell pudding , closely associated with the town of Bakewell in Derbyshire .
In baking, a flaky pastry (also known as a "quick puff pastry" or "blitz puff pastry") [34] is a light, flaky, unleavened pastry, similar to a puff pastry. The main difference is that in a flaky pastry, large lumps of shortening (approximately 1-in./2½ cm. across), are mixed into the dough, as opposed to a large rectangle of shortening with a ...
It is made into the shape of a roll similar to that of rugelach with currants wrapped and rolled between flaky pastry layers. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] A variation to the currants roll is the coconut roll (known in Guyana as salara [ 13 ] and in Grenada as turnovers [ 14 ] ) where the currants are replaced by various colours of shredded coconut .
Medieval recipes generally included a shortcrust and puff pastry case filled with a mixture of cream, milk, or broth, with eggs, sweeteners such as sugar or honey, and sometimes spices. Recipes existed as early as the fourteenth century that would still be recognisable as custard tarts today. [ 5 ]