Make Jam Tarts
Jam tarts are a tasty snack that can be made sweet or savory, depending on your preferred flavoring. These are the basic instructions.
Ingredients
- 150g (2/3 cup) plain flour or self raising flour
- 50g (About 3.5 tbsp) of butter/margarine
- 3 tablespoons water
- Jam
Steps
- Measure all of your ingredients and prepare your equipment.
- Sieve the flour into the mixing bowl.
- Chop up the shortening and butter into small pieces and add to the flour.
- With your hands, rub in the mixture, adding a bit of water at a time until it goes soft and creamy creamy golden yellow color.
- Roll it out as far as you can. Well done, you have just made shortcrust pastry.
- Using a cutter, cut the pastry into shapes like a circle or oval.
- Put the pastry shapes in the bun tray so they look like cups or mugs.
- Add the jam or whatever else you like in your tarts.
- Cook for 12-15 or if you like the crunchy cook then for 15-20 minutes.
- cool for 2 minutes.
- sprinkle with sugar.
- Take it out. Voila, you are done - now enjoy your jam tarts!
Tips
- Try dyeing the pastry an unusual color.
- Try adding toppings, such as Smarties.
- Try making quiche-just mix some egg and cheese and add to the pastry.
- Add lemon juice if the tarts are too sweet.
Warnings
- Use oven gloves when handling things around the oven.
Things You'll Need
- Muffin tray
- Sieve
- Round-bladed knife
- Jug
- Scale
- Mixing bowl
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