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- From: close@lunch.asd.sgi.com (Diane Barlow Close)
- Subject: Butter Tarts
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- Date: 5 Nov 1993 20:07:39 GMT
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- "The Ultimate Butter Tart"
- (recipe from Crisco Company)
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- _The Shells_
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- 2 cups (500 ml) all-purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp (4 ml) salt
- 1 cup (250 ml) shortening
- 4 tbsp (60 ml) ice water
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- Prepare pastry. Roll out thinly on lightly floured surface. Cut into
- rounds with 4 inch (10 cm) cutter. Fit into medium-sized muffin cups.
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- _The Filling_
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- 1/2 cup (125 ml) lightly packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) corn syrup
- 1/4 cup (50 ml) butter or "golden flavour Crisco Shortening"
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla
- 1/4 tsp (1 ml) salt
- 3/4 cup (175 ml) raisins
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- Combine all filling ingredients except raisons. Mix well.
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- Put raisons into pastry shells, dividing evenly. Fill 2/3 full with
- syrup mixture. Bake on bottom shelf of oven at 425 degrees F (220
- degrees C) for 12 to 15 minutes. Filling will be runny (yum!!!) if
- baked at lesser time, and jelly-like if baked at longer time. Don't
- overbake! Underbaking makes them runnier (my fave!!). Cool on wire
- rack, then remove from pans.
-
- Makes approximately 12 tarts.
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- Variations:
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- Maple tarts: replace corn syrup with maple syrup and use walnuts
- instead of raisins.
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