Preheat the oven to 180☌/ 350° F (but be careful when using Incendio!).ĥ. If using just the ready-made crust, roll it out to line a 22cm/9-inch tart tin.Ĥ. Prepare your premade pie crust according to instructions. ( Use the Severing Charm if you’re feeling adventurous).ģ. They work best in the recipe if they’re a little fluffy and have some texture to them instead of being grinded into a powder. Crumble your bread into small pieces by hand or put them through a food processor to make the crumbs. For homemade bread crumbs (which work best in this recipe), toast 20 slices of fresh white bread until lightly brown in a Muggle toaster or toaster oven.Ģ. I know Hermione would never forgive me.ġ. Weasley.īetter yet, this version is completely vegan! I’d hate for anyone to miss out on this perfect dessert. I bought a ready-made shortcrust pastry so that I only had to make the filling. I’m no Molly Weasley, and I have never been particularly good at Potions either, so I went for a quick and easy recipe with only a few ingredients. (Sorry, I must not tell lies!)įor once, I thought I’d try my hand at baking one myself. I’d love to be able to go back to Hogwarts to enjoy it one more time - hopefully without, you know, Voldemort trying to kill me and all of my friends. To this day, I can’t dig into a treacle tart without thinking about all those incredible feasts in the Great Hall at Hogwarts with Ron and Hermione alongside me. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had it! This is going to make me sound like Ron (love you mate!) but I’ve never had a treacle tart I didn’t like.ĭid you know George actually bought me 30 jars of Honeydukes treacle for my thirtieth birthday? (Not that I’m complaining.) If you have any left over I strongly recommend you roll it out, grab some jam and make a wee tart just for you.Some of you may know that treacle tart is my favourite dessert. It took no time to make and will be very useful for any tarts I care to make in the future, so I'm going to be sure I don't lose this recipe. I've never made it from scratch before and the use of lard in this meant it was crispy and sweet, and totally divine. My favourite discovery while making this tart, however, was the shortcrust pastry. For a sweet tooth, it's a better than something with pure white sugar which has had all the goodness refined out of it. It's a great way to use up stale bread, which you make into breadcrumbs for the filling. Treacle tart is a traditional English dessert that is usually served with clotted cream. And because treacle is so unrefined it still has a lot of stuff in it which is good for you - iron, calcium, B vitamins and minerals. You can use golden syrup instead but you would lose the lovely deep, dark brown colour of the tart. Treacle is a by-product of sugar refining and is a tacky, dark substance. My only memory of treacle tart is from my favourite movie as a child, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, when the child catcher lures the children by promising a taste of it. You'll also be very popular with the kids or grandchildren if you make this for them and, according to my research, treacle tart is cockney rhyming slang for "sweetheart" so you can have a bit of fun with that too if you like. It really is a bit of brown stuff on some pastry, but it does taste sweet and warming. "That's Harry's favourite dessert!" she said.Īlthough when she saw it cooked on the plate, she was a little underwhelmed. On hearing it was treacle tart, the Harry Potter fan in the house was delighted. The kitchen smelled wonderful when I cooked this tart and I soon found I could hardly move as my family gathered, anxious to find out what was cooking. Share this article facebook copy link twitter linkedin reddit email
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