Butter tarts

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Mix 250 g flour with 2 g salt, rub in 115 g cold butter to pea-sized crumbs and stir in 60 g ice water until the dough holds together.

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8 min

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Ingredients

  • 250 gWheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
  • 115 gButter, without salt
  • 2 gSalt, table
  • 60 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 10 gWheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched editorial addition
  • 200 gSugars, brown
  • 80 gSyrup, Cane
  • 60 gButter, without salt
  • 100 gEgg, whole, raw, fresh
  • 5 gVinegar, distilled
  • 1 gSalt, table
  • 100 gRaisins, dark, seedless (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)

Method

  1. Mix 250 g flour with 2 g salt, rub in 115 g cold butter to pea-sized crumbs and stir in 60 g ice water until the dough holds together.
  2. Wrap the dough and rest it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile stir together 60 g melted butter, 200 g brown sugar, 80 g golden syrup, 2 eggs, 5 g vinegar and 1 g salt just until combined, do not whisk. Rinse and dry the raisins.
  4. Preheat the oven to 200 °C. Roll the dough out to about 4 mm on a surface dusted with 10 g flour, cut 12 rounds of 10 cm (re-roll the scraps) and press them into a muffin tin (about 36 g pastry each).
  5. Put about 8 g raisins into each case and pour in filling to two thirds of the height (about 37 g each).
  6. Bake for 18 minutes at 200 °C until the pastry is golden and the filling bubbles in the centre.
  7. Leave the tarts in the tin for 10 minutes, loosen with a knife and cool on a rack for another 10 minutes; the filling thickens as it cools but stays gooey inside.