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    Ecclefechan Butter Tart


    Source of Recipe


    Marla

    Recipe Introduction


    When travel writer Bruce Stannard from Scots Heritage Magazine was staying at CoulHouse Hotel he was so impressed by the Ecclefechan Butter Tart that he asked for the recipe. Here it is. As for Ecclefechan, that's a small town in Dunfries and Galloway where the influential philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle was born.

    List of Ingredients




    Ecclefechan Butter Tart


    2 Beaten eggs
    6oz (200 gms or just under one US cup) soft brown sugar
    1 tbsp vinegar
    8oz (250 gms or One and a quarter US cups) mixed dried fruit
    2oz (50 gms) chopped walnuts
    Prepared short crust pastry
    4oz (125 gms or one stick) melted butter

    Recipe






    Mix the sugar, butter and beaten eggs together. Stir in the vinegar, then add mixed
    fruit and nuts. Line patty tins with pastry and put a spoonful of the mixture into
    each. Bake in a fairly hot oven (190C/375F/Gas Mark 5) for 20-25 minutes.


 

 

 


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