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Sweet Dreamy Romantic Raspberry tarts
By ashley_cv2004
Lovely sweet tart filled with custard cream and top with fresh raspberries
- 100g shortcrust pastry
- 100g fresh raspberries
- 50 ml double cream
- 50 ml milk
- 2 tablespoon sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 teaspoon cornflour
Raspberry tart
By MARJORY
Roll out the pastry and place into a flan tin
- 750g ripe and fragrant raspberries.
- 1 roll of shortcrust pastry.
- Filling:
- 20 cl of creme fraiche.
- 3 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
- 2 eggs
- and a few mint leaves
Chocolate and Pear Tart
By BangersAuVin, Bangers Au Vin
This tart is the only thing I actually like pears in, so definitely something for everyone to try
- For the pastry:
- 50g unsalted butter
- 100g plain white flour
- 25g cocoa powder
- 50g caster sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- For the filling:
- 3 tbsp ginger marmalade
- 1 tin of pears
- 100g good quality dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa)
- 50g unsalted butter
- 2 eggs, yolks seperated from whites
- 100g caster sugar
- You will also need baking beans
Romantic Apple pie
By Vah11
These apple pie are delicious and easy to make
- 300g short crust pastry
- 300g cooking apple
- 100g sugar
Short Crust Pastry
By Truefubar
Tasty short crust pastry that can be used for sweet or savoury
- 225g Plain flour
- 175g Butter
- 1 Egg yolk
- 2 tbsp Caster sugar
- Cold water as required
- Clingfilm
How to Make the Perfect Pie Crust
By Lildrop
A good is crust is all it takes to take your pie from passable to unsurpassable
- 225g plain flour
- 100g butter, diced
- pinch salt
Easy Wholemeal Shortcrust Pastry
By eimearm00
Sieve flour and salt into a bowl
- 125g plain flour
- 75g Wholemeal flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 100g fat(butter in a block,e.tc)
- Cold water(about 2tbsp)
Recipe: Indian Curried Vegetable Pasties, rated 2.8/5 | Gourmandize UK Ireland Gourmandize.co.uk
By wendymcc
Find this recipe for Indian Curried Vegetable Pasties, rated 2
- 1/2 Onion
- 2 Carrots
- 3 Potatoes
- 5 Cauliflower Florets
- 5 Mushrooms (cut into 20 slices in total)
- 100g Green Beans
- 2 Cloves of Garlic
- 2 Tsp's Mild Korma Curry Powder
- Salt to taste
- Oil to fry
- Grated Cheese (optional)
- 1x500g Block of Shortcrust Pastry
Festive Mini Mince Pie Pastries
By selmastable, Selma's Table
A thin, crisp shortcrust base with a flaky, buttery, puff pastry top, encasing an orange scented little mouthful of...
- 1 x 375g sheet ready-rolled shortcrust pastry
- 1 x sheet of ready rolled puff pastry
- 300g jar of mincemeat
- Zest of one orange
- handful of dried cranberries and sour cherries
- 1 egg, beaten
- 100 g icing sugar sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
How to Make Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
By kerbear1985
This is hands-down the best sweet shortcrust pastry recipe!
- 110g Butter
- 55g Sugar
- 175g Flour
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Hot cross-bun treacle tart
- 350g shortcrust pastry
- 300g golden syrup
- 150g hot cross buns
- 1/4tsp cinnamon
- 1/2tsp ground ginger
- zest of an orange
- 2tbp single Cream
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How to make the perfect strawberry...
- For the pastry
- 250g flour
- 125g softened butter (not melted )
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tbsp milk
- 2 tbsp sunflower oil
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- For the topping
- 1 tub mascarpone - 250g
- 2 tbsp double cream
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 sachet vanilla sugar
- 750g strawberries
- 125g raspberries
- Icing sugar
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Pasties
- 250g beef stewing steak, diced
- 1 small onion, sliced
- 1 large carrot, diced to about 2cm dice
- 1 large potato, peeled and diced to about 2cm dice
- Salt and black pepper
- 1 ready rolled sheet of shortcrust pastry
- 2 small knobs of butter
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Sausage Rolls
- 200g Shortcrust pastry
- 200g skinless sausages( about 8 sausages)/ 200 g sausage meat
- Pepper and salt
- Egg(to glaze)
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Mum's Meat and Potato Pie
- 500g stewing beef, diced
- 1 large onion, sliced
- 2 large carrots, sliced
- 8 medium sized potatoes, peeled and halved (4 chunks per person)
- Salt and pepper
- 2 pints of cold water
- 2 beef oxo cubes
- Shortcrust pastry (can be ready made, or make your own!)
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Shortcrust Apple Pie
- Shortcrust Pastry
- Granny Smith Apples
- Golden Delicious Apples
- Apple Cider or tangy applie juice
- Lemon juice
- 100g sugar
- 100g Buttery Spread
- 2 tablespoons flour
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Cherry Bakewell Tart
- See short crust pastry recipe for base
- To make the Cake
- 150g Margarine
- 150g Caster sugar
- 100g Self-raising flour
- 3 Eggs
- 1tsp Baking powder
- 60g Ground Almonds
- 1tbsp Milk
- 2tsp Almond Essence
- Raspberry Jam
- 250g Icing sugar
- To make the icning
- 250g Icing sugar
- 3tbsp Cherry juice
- Dash of almond essence
- Decoration
- Cocktail cherry halves
- Shallow cake tin
- 2 Mixing bowls
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Jam Tarts
- 100g of Plain flour
- 50g of Margarine
- 1-2 tablespoons of water
- Jam
- Some more flour to dust the table
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Basic Flaky Pie Crust
- 250g flour
- 120g buttery spread
- 3 tablespoons water
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Quiche
- 100g of Plain Flour
- 50g of Margarine
- 1-2 tablespoons of water
- Bacon
- 1 onion
- 100g of grated cheese
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 pint of milk
- (optional Salt and pepper)
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Chocolate & chilli tart
- 300g block Careme Dark Chocolate Shortcrust Pastry (see notes)
- 300ml thickened cream
- 150ml pure (thin) cream
- 2 tablespoons caster sugar
- 200g dark chocolate, finely chopped
- 100g milk chocolate, finely chopped
- Seeds of 10 cardamom pods
- 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- Chilli syrup
- 1 tablespoon glucose syrup (see notes)
- 1 cup (220g) caster sugar
- 2 long red chillies, seeds removed, halved lengthways
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Coconut Chocolate Pie
- Pie coconut chocolate
- -A shortcrust pastry
- -200g of dark chocolate
- -100g butter
- -125g of sugar
- -4 eggs
- -100g coconut powder
- -1/2 litre cream
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