Just when you might have forgotten that this was a British cookbook - there is a recipe for chili dogs that uses store-bought hot dogs, I kid you not - along comes something like this treacle tart to drown you in nostalgia. And delicious delicious treacle. Although that would probably be a fairly horrible thing to actually drown in.
First, we must make the pastry! It's a sweetcrust pastry, which normally I can do without - especially when your pie filling is essentially liquid sugar - but I am all in for this recipe.
Making rare use of our food processor - the vaguely creepy 70s-era beige food processor that we discovered in a kitchen cupboard after we bought the house - the pastry quickly comes together.
And now the important stuff: the treacle. Gently gently heat the golden syrup...
...and melt the butter into it. This is what dreams are made of.
Dreams which only get better when you add cream, egg yolks, lemon zest/juice, and panko breadcrumbs. We're reaching the tipping point between dream and fantasy here.
Meanwhile, we have pre-baked our crust and it's getting a dash of today's secret ingredient: lemon curd. Full disclosure, I've always been prejudiced against lemon curd because at first glance (and sound) it always seems a little gross. So I was worried! Oh, how wrong I was.
Pour treacle mixture over the top of the lemon curd, and bake until you can't stand the wait any longer.
It may not look like much - one day we'll take that course in presentation, honest - but this is a slice of heaven. Well played, Gordon. Well played.
First, we must make the pastry! It's a sweetcrust pastry, which normally I can do without - especially when your pie filling is essentially liquid sugar - but I am all in for this recipe.
Making rare use of our food processor - the vaguely creepy 70s-era beige food processor that we discovered in a kitchen cupboard after we bought the house - the pastry quickly comes together.
And now the important stuff: the treacle. Gently gently heat the golden syrup...
...and melt the butter into it. This is what dreams are made of.
Dreams which only get better when you add cream, egg yolks, lemon zest/juice, and panko breadcrumbs. We're reaching the tipping point between dream and fantasy here.
Meanwhile, we have pre-baked our crust and it's getting a dash of today's secret ingredient: lemon curd. Full disclosure, I've always been prejudiced against lemon curd because at first glance (and sound) it always seems a little gross. So I was worried! Oh, how wrong I was.
Pour treacle mixture over the top of the lemon curd, and bake until you can't stand the wait any longer.
It may not look like much - one day we'll take that course in presentation, honest - but this is a slice of heaven. Well played, Gordon. Well played.
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