
Treacle Tart
Try this delicious treacle tart recipe for a tasty teatime treat. Made with Jus-Rol shortcrust pastry and best served with whipped cream.
Quick Stats
Easy
1 Tart
25 minutes bake time
Treacle Tart
Try this delicious treacle tart recipe for a tasty teatime treat. Made with Jus-Rol shortcrust pastry and best served with whipped cream.
Ingredients
- 1 x 500g block Jus-Rol™ shortcrust pastry Thawed or use all butter pastry
- 100g breadcrumbs Fresh White
- 350g golden syrup
- 1/2 lemon grated rind and juice
Equipment required
- Rolling Pin
- Loosebased rectangular flan tin
- 23cm 9inch flan tin
Techniques Used
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How to Roll Shortcrust Pastry
How to Roll Shortcrust Pastry
- For best results when rolling out shortcrust pastry use a large, clean dry area of the work surface and lightly dust it with plain flour.
- Place pastry dough on surface and lightly dust it and the rolling pin with flour.
- Roll pastry firmly, always rolling away from you, give the dough 2-3 rolls.
- Then turn the dough a quarter turn.
- Dust again if necessary and continue rolling out, frequently turning the pastry so it is not always rolled in the same direction as this causes shrinkage.
- When the pastry has increased in size, pick it up to turn/ line the tin by rolling it round the rolling pin.
- Lift the pin with the pastry around it carefully and turn it to lay out and continue rolling. Again this is done to prevent the pastry from stretching as you lift it which in turn would result in shrinkage in baking. Shortcrust pastry should be rolled out to approx. 3-5 mm. depth.
Method
- Preheat oven to 200°C(180°C for fan assisted ovens)/Gas 6
- Have ready a 23cm / 9″ flan tin.
- Gently heat syrup and stir in breadcrumbs, put aside to cool.
- Meanwhile, roll out pastry and line your flan tin. Stir juice and rind into syrup mixture and place in base of pastry case.
- Bake for approximately 25 minutes until pastry golden brown.
- For a traditional look decorate the top of the tart with pastry strips cut from any trimmings and formed into a lattice design.