Prep: 15 minutes plus chilling Bake: 35-40 minutes

My second dish for our time travelling stream to pair with my Meat Pies was strawberry tarts. Tarts seemed to be a common dessert with cakes and this strawberry one is simple and quite an experience. This makes about four mini tarts. Let’s dive in.

Ingredients

Pastry Dough

• 1/8 cup water

• 1/4 cup crisco (would have been lard/fat back then)

• 1 cup flour + extra as needed

• pinch of salt

• 1 egg

Filling

• 8 or so strawberries

• 2 tbls sugar

• At least 2 tbls up to 1/4 cup red wine

Prep

1. Add the flour and salt into a bowl and mix

2. Simmer the water in a pot on medium high heat and add the crisco

3. Stir and melt the crisco fully

4. Remove from the heat and pour into bowl with the flour mixture and stir and mix fully

5. Allow to cool and add the egg

6. Mix to form a dough, if too wet, add 1 tbls of flour at a time to form dough

7. Chill for at least 30 minutes

8. Preheat oven to 350 F (177 C)

9. Roll out dough to around 1/4 inch thick

10. Cut out dough to just slightly larger than tart dishes

11. Line tart dishes with the dough

12. Slice the strawberries thinly and stack inside tarts to fill it

13. Sprinkle sugar over the strawberries

14. Bake for 15 minutes

15. Remove from oven and pour red wine on top. Do not drown the tart, just enough to get the taste over the strawberries (i drowned mine)

16. Bake for 20 more minutes

Afterthoughts

This was a lot of fun to make. I am sorry I drowned the tarts while making it. The crust was amazing, and crispy. Strawberries are always great but this was an interesting way to have them. I’m so used to them either being in a jam or at least in a dough or so with treats but this was just straight strawberries sweetened greatly. This is a lot of fun to make and would entertain anyone you want to make them with.