Maid Of Honour Squares Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, stir together 1 cup flour and 1 tablespoon sugar. Cut in 1/4 cup butter until smaller than peas. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of milk at a time over the dough until moistened. Form dough into a ball. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough out to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut into 2 1/2 inch circles using a cookie or biscuit cutter. Press circles into the bottom and up the sides of ungreased mini muffin cups. set aside.
• In a medium bowl, cream together 2 tablespoons butter, 3/4 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon flour. Beat in the eggs and sherry, then stir in the ground almonds. Place 1/4 teaspoon of jam into the bottom of the lined cups. Cover with 1 tablespoon of the almond mixture.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until the tops are lightly browned. Allow to cool slightly before removing from muffin tins to cool on wire racks.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C) Roll pastry carefully in both directions until about 1/4-inch (7 millimeters) thick, cut in circles about 3-inches (75 millimeters) in diameter and allow to rest. Mix cheese, sugar, lemon rind, and almonds, then add egg and mix until combined. Press pastry into mini muffin pans. It is important that it is thin on the base and thick on the sides. Fill about 2/3 full with mixture and bake for about 25 minutes, or until golden brown.

Steps:

• Prepare pastry and line the tart shells.
• Mix the beaten egg, sugar and butter together until creamy.
• Add vanilla and walnuts.
• If desired, a little jam or jelly may be placed in each tart shell before adding the nut mixture.
• Place a spoonful of nut mixture into each tart shell.
• Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit until filling is delicately browned, approximately 10 to 15 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 F ro 200C and grease some tartlet tins.
• Roll out the pastry very thinly on a floured surface, and use an 8cm cutter to make rounds to line the tins.
• Spoon a little jam or jelly into the bottom of each pastry tin.
• Chill while you make the filling.
• Sieve the cottage cheese into a bowl and mix in the caster sugar, lemon rind and ground almonds.
• Beat in the eggs and brandy.
• Add this to the curd mixture and mix until thoroughly blended.
• Fill each pastry case two-thirds full with the mixture.
• Bake for 25 minutes until well risen and puffy.
• Cool slightly before serving and dust with icing sugar.

Steps:

• Mix flour, baking powder and sugar; cut in butter as for pie pastry;
• Add beaten egg.
• Keep 1/2 the mixture to sprinkle on top and put remaining half in square cake pan and press down.
• In a saucepan, mix raisins, flour, sugar and salt. Pour boiling water over all and cook over medium heat until thickened. Cool mixture to lukewarm.
• Pour raisin mixture over the cooked mixture.
• Sprinkle with reserved mixture and bake for 1/2 hour at 350.
• Cut in squares while it is cooling.

Steps:

• Set oven to 400*F or Mark 6.
• Grease and flour 20 patty tins.
• Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface and use to line the tins, trimming the edges neatly.
• In a bowl, mix together the ground almonds and sugar, then stir in the beaten eggs, flour, cream, nutmeg and lemon juice.
• Divide the mixture between the pastry cases and bake for about 15 minutes or until firm and golden.
• Turn out on to a wire rack and allow to cool.
• Serve dredged with a little icing sugar.

Steps:

• Base;.
• In bowl,beat together butter,sugar and salt until fluffy;stir in flour.Press into parchment-paper lined or greased 13 by 9-inch metal cake pan;prick dough with fork.Bake in center of 350°F oven for about 17 minutes until golden.Let cool on rack.
• In bowl, beat butter with granulated sugar until fluffy.Beat in eggs,one at a time,beating well after each.Beat in milk and lemon rind.Beat in ground almonds;stir in flour and salt.
• Spread jam over base;Pour almond mixture over jam.Sprinkle with slivered almonds.Bake in center of 350°F oven for about 30 minutes or until golden and cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.Let cool in pan on rack.Sprinkle with icing sugar.