Treacle Tart

Recipe

With golden syrup, ginger, and lemon.

Serves: 4 people   |   Prep time: 15 minutes   |   Cooking time: 40 minutes

British   |   Dessert

  

Ingredients

  • 1 x 375g pack Shortcrust Pastry
  • 90g Fresh Breadcrumbs
  • 430g Golden Syrup
  • ½ tsp Ground Ginger
  • 1 Lemon
  • 1 x 20cm loose flan tin
  • Specially Selected Clotted Cream, to serve

  

Method

  1. Line the tin with the pastry.
  2. Use some crumbled tin foil to line the base and support the pastry on the sides then bake in the oven for 7 minutes.
  3. Carefully remove the foil and bake for another 3 minutes to dry the base.
  4. Allow to cool.
  5. Grate the rind of the lemon and juice it.
  6. In a bowl, mix the lemon rind, lemon juice, breadcrumbs, golden syrup and ground ginger together.
  7. Pour into the baked pastry shell and bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes until just set.
  8. Remove and serve hot or cold with the cream.