Grandmothers Tart Recipes

Steps:

• Combine all-purpose flour and 9 tablespoons butter in the bowl of a food processor; pulse until they resemble bread crumbs. Add water and salt. Mix, adding 1 teaspoon water at a time as needed, until a dough forms that's not too wet and sticky. Shape into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 7-inch loose-bottomed tart pan.
• Combine 7 tablespoons butter and sugar in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add self-rising flour, eggs, ground almonds, milk, and almond extract and mix well.
• Roll dough into a thin round on a lightly floured work surface. Press around the rim of the tart pan and trim off excess dough. Cover dough with raspberry jam. Spoon in almond filling and smooth out top with the back of a spoon. Sprinkle sliced almonds over the top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until top of the tart is a nice golden brown, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack to cool, about 1 hour. Remove pan when tart is cool and place on a serving plate.

Steps:

• 1. PASTRY: cheat and use refer store bought, or make your favorite, or this one. Blend Shortening/Lard and flour with pastry cutter, till you have created a uniform crumbly texture, about the size of peas.
• 2. in seperate bowl; mix egg, vinegar, & col water. Add to Shortening and flour mixture. Mix ONLY til mixed,. . "NO MORE". NOTE: This is the Key t a tender crust. DO NOT OVER HANDLE THE DOUGH! Roll into ball of dough. Place in freezer 10-15 min to chill. Roll out on lightly floured surface about the thickness of a CD case.
• 3. use wide mouth jar lid as cutter, or Cut 4" rounds of pastry dough and line tart pan or Muffin tins. Preheat Oven @ 400
• 4. FILLING: In Heavy saucepan, combine raisins,butter, sugar, syrup, & salt, over low heat til butter is melted and sugar is disolved. Do not let mixture get too hot. NOTE: Only heat to WARM stage. Remove from Heat.
• 5. Stir in Eggs, & vanilla.
• 6. Spoon filling into tart shells, filling 2/3 full.
• 7. Bake: 400 for 15 min. Reduce heat to 350 and bake 5 more minutes, or until pastry is a golden brown. DO NOT OVER BAKE DO NOT let filling bubble over or you will have trouble geting your tarts out of the pan. Cool 15 min before removing from pan.
• 8. HINT: centers will be slightly runny, but not too runny, so every bite you take will ooze down your chin, and these crusts flakey.I like runny--the type the dribbes when you bite into one. if you like your more firm, bake a full 20 min.

Steps:

• Melt butter.
• Beat in eggs.
• Beat in all other ingredients except raisens or currents.
• Stir in raisens.
• Fill tart shells 2/3 full.
• Bake at 400 degrees until pastry is brown & center is bubbling. Approximately 10-13min.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Blend flour, sugar, lemon peel and salt in processor for 10 seconds. Add butter and process until coarse meal forms. Add yolks and egg and process until moist clumps form. Transfer dough to work surface. Gather dough into ball and knead 1 minute.
• Divide dough into 2 pieces, one slightly larger than the other. Press larger dough piece evenly onto bottom and halfway up sides of 9-inch-diameter tart pan with removable bottom. Spread 1 cup preserves in crust. Cut remaining dough into 12 equal pieces. Roll pieces between hands and work surface into pencil-thin ropes. Arrange 6 ropes over preserves, spacing evenly and pressing ends to seal at crust edge; trim extra dough. Arrange remaining 6 ropes in opposite direction, spacing evenly and forming lattice pattern. Press ends to seal at crust edge; trim extra dough.
• Bake tart until crust is golden brown, piercing with toothpick if bottom crust bubbles, about 50 minutes. Cool tart in pan on rack. Can be prepared 8 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.) Remove pan sides. Lightly sift powdered sugar over tart, cut into wedges and serve.

Steps:

• Whisk flour and 1 teaspoon salt together in a large bowl; cut lard into flour mixture with a pastry blender until crumbly. Make a well in the flour mixture and place 1 beaten egg into the well.
• Pour ice cold water and vinegar into flour mixture; stir with a wooden spoon until a dough forms. Divide dough into two balls; wrap dough in waxed paper and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Beat brown sugar and butter together in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth; beat in 2 eggs one at a time. Stir raisins and vanilla extract into butter mixture.
• Roll out one ball of dough on a lightly floured surface to 1/8-inch thickness; reserve remaining dough for another use. Cut dough into circles large enough to fit into the bottom and partway up sides of the wells of a muffin tin using a round biscuit cutter. Press dough circles lightly into muffin tin to form tart shells; fill each shell 3/4 full with raisin mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until filling is bubbly and pastry is lightly browned, about 20 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Filling:.
• Mix all ingredients until well blended; set aside.
• Pastry:.
• Cut butter and shortening together using a fork or pastry whisk utensil.
• Slowly add salt and flour to the butter and shortening cutting it in until the mixture looks like small crumbles.
• Add cold water one tablespoon at a time until the dough sticks together.
• Roll out the dough to about 1/8 inch thick.
• Use a wide mouthed glass (I use a pint glass) to cut out circles.
• Place circles into an ungreased cupcake pan.
• Pour filling into the crusts, about a quarter of the way full. Be careful not to over fill as the mixture will bubble up and make the tarts stick to the pan.
• Bake in oven at 425°F for about 12-15 minutes or until crust is golden brown.
• Good luck and enjoy!