Old Fashioned English Open Tart Recipe by: Don (Webmaster)
Sylvia, I am not sure if this old time English open tart recipe is similar to the jam tart recipe you're looking for, but it's easy to make and delicious.
Recipe for Open Tart of Strawberry, or Other Preserve
Ingredients: Trimmings of puff paste, any kind of jam.
Method: Butter a tart-pan of the usual shape, roll out the puff paste to the thickness of 1/8 of an inch, and line the pan with it, prick a few holes in the bottom with a fork to prevent the paste rising and blistering, and bake the tart shell in a brisk oven from 10 to 15 minutes.
Let the paste cool a little; then fill it with preserve, place on it a few decorative stars or leaves, which have been previously cut out of paste and baked, and the tart is ready for table.
By making the tart in this manner, both the flavour and colour of the jam are preserved, which would be spoiled were it baked in the oven on the paste, and less jam is required.
This old fashioned English tart recipe was adapted from Mrs. Beeton's Every-Day Cookery? by Mrs. Isabella Beeton, published by Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, in 1912.
