Food heaven and hell

[BWFC_Insane]

Food hell is anything from the offal family

Food heaven is a difficult one. Scallops done in garlic butter followed by Manchester tart or rhubarb crumble, I really can't choose.

Manchester tart? Rhubarb crumble? Fecking hell that's gods food is that!

I know I'm risking pages of innuendo - or worse - but, really, what is Manchester tart? I guess if God likes it i won't...

It's got a pasty base, with a layer of jam, then a thick layer of (set) custard with coconut flavouring, topped with coconut shavings..

It's fantastic

Yep as shown here.



TBH it doesn't sound or look much. But its comfort food at its absolute best.

[Bruce Rioja]

I did have a look at him-that's-on-telly-on-Satdi-morning's recipe, but you'll be fannying about til Doomsday with it.

Thais is far more concise (though I've no idea what baking beans are )

Ladies and gentlemen - Game on

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients (serves 4):

600ml (1 pint) milk
110g (4oz) shortcrust pastry
3 tbsp raspberry jam
3 tbsp custard powder
2-3 tbsp desiccated coconut
2 tbsp sugar

Method: Manchester tart

1-Pre-heat oven to 200°C (400°F or Gas Mark 6).
2-Roll out the dough and line a baking dish.
3-Blind bake (prick with fork and place a piece of greaseproof paper with some baking beans on pastry).
4-Bake for 15 minutes.
5-Allow to cool.
6-Spread the jam over the pastry base, sprinkle with coconut.
7-Boil the milk and whisk into the sugar and custard powder (follow manufacturer's instructions).
8-Pour into the pastry case.
9-Sprinkle with coconut or a little sugar, to prevent a skin forming.
9-Allow to cool before serving.

[boltonboris]

Baking beans are little ceramic balls that weigh down the pastry to stop it from rising out of shape. Basically, it keeps the base nice and flat

[Bruce Rioja]

Cheers, Mate. I never knew that.

[TANGODANCER]

(looks like the inside of a dunlopillow pillow)

I have a memory, and no one in our family is left to confirm, that my mother used to work for dunlopillow on Wolfendon Street, which ran between Halliwell and Blackburn Road - is that possible?

I lived for nearly twenty years directly opposite Wolfenden Street (Belgrave Street) and yes, there was a bed making company on Wolfenden Street for quite a few years. Next door to the school, if I remember. Len Hill's barber shop ( where the famous cycling Neville served his apprenticeship) was on the corner.

[BWFC_Insane]

I did have a look at him-that's-on-telly-on-Satdi-morning's recipe, but you'll be fannying about til Doomsday with it.

Thais is far more concise (though I've no idea what baking beans are )

Ladies and gentlemen - Game on

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients (serves 4):

600ml (1 pint) milk
110g (4oz) shortcrust pastry
3 tbsp raspberry jam
3 tbsp custard powder
2-3 tbsp desiccated coconut
2 tbsp sugar

Method: Manchester tart

1-Pre-heat oven to 200°C (400°F or Gas Mark 6).
2-Roll out the dough and line a baking dish.
3-Blind bake (prick with fork and place a piece of greaseproof paper with some baking beans on pastry).
4-Bake for 15 minutes.
5-Allow to cool.
6-Spread the jam over the pastry base, sprinkle with coconut.
7-Boil the milk and whisk into the sugar and custard powder (follow manufacturer's instructions).
8-Pour into the pastry case.
9-Sprinkle with coconut or a little sugar, to prevent a skin forming.
9-Allow to cool before serving.

Aye or just buy pre-cooked pastry flan cases (of whatever size you like) and do the rest......

[Bruce Rioja]

Aye or just buy pre-cooked pastry flan cases (of whatever size you like) and do the rest......

Well I do try to avoid the horrendous indigestion that I find accompanies processed/pre-made pastry.

[BWFC_Insane]

Aye or just buy pre-cooked pastry flan cases (of whatever size you like) and do the rest......

Well I do try to avoid the horrendous indigestion that I find accompanies processed/pre-made pastry.

I do too usually, but then sometimes you just need a quick result.

Asda extra special pastry cases are ok IMO for an emergency individual portion size manchester tart.

[Bruce Rioja]

Aye or just buy pre-cooked pastry flan cases (of whatever size you like) and do the rest......

Well I do try to avoid the horrendous indigestion that I find accompanies processed/pre-made pastry.

I do too usually, but then sometimes you just need a quick result.

Asda extra special pastry cases are ok IMO for an emergency individual portion size manchester tart.

Asda it is then (where are they to be found? In the frozen bit?)

[BWFC_Insane]

Aye or just buy pre-cooked pastry flan cases (of whatever size you like) and do the rest......

Well I do try to avoid the horrendous indigestion that I find accompanies processed/pre-made pastry.

I do too usually, but then sometimes you just need a quick result.

Asda extra special pastry cases are ok IMO for an emergency individual portion size manchester tart.

Asda it is then (where are they to be found? In the frozen bit?)

No they're not frozen, I think they're with the baking stuff, but don't quote me on that.

They don't always have em either....

[The Axman]

8 bases at £1.78 (22.3p per base)

Might as well just buy the blighters


£1.44 for 2

look ugly to me though, pock marked. Maybe they're the extra special 'Welcome To Manchester Tarts'

[thebish]

Aye or just buy pre-cooked pastry flan cases (of whatever size you like) and do the rest......

Well I do try to avoid the horrendous indigestion that I find accompanies processed/pre-made pastry.

I do too usually, but then sometimes you just need a quick result.

Asda extra special pastry cases are ok IMO for an emergency individual portion size manchester tart.

Asda it is then (where are they to be found? In the frozen bit?)

No they're not frozen, I think they're with the baking stuff, but don't quote me on that.

They don't always have em either....

(also - look out - they come in sweet and savoury! you'd need the sweet one for a manchester tart!)

making your own pastry is not that hard though!!

[Gooner Girl]

Cheers, Mate. I never knew that.

Even I knew that! (never used them though)

[BWFC_Insane]

Well I do try to avoid the horrendous indigestion that I find accompanies processed/pre-made pastry.

I do too usually, but then sometimes you just need a quick result.

Asda extra special pastry cases are ok IMO for an emergency individual portion size manchester tart.

Asda it is then (where are they to be found? In the frozen bit?)

No they're not frozen, I think they're with the baking stuff, but don't quote me on that.

They don't always have em either....

(also - look out - they come in sweet and savoury! you'd need the sweet one for a manchester tart!)

making your own pastry is not that hard though!!

Agreed but if I get home at 7 o clock and fancy a manchester tart for pudding, I probably am not going to start making my own pastry. So they are useful for those kind of situations!

I'd always make my own rather than buy so you can get the custard you prefer in them and the right custard/jam ratio.

[Bruce Rioja]

Cheers, Mate. I never knew that.

Even I knew that! (never used them though)

Aye, and on eating yours people will think that you forgot to take them out

[The Axman]

Teasing and Abuse in Mid Sussex. Second in the trilogy by Ralph Steadman & Hunter S Thompson.

[2399]

Yum.....?

[thebish]

what were them things that bakers used to sell in bolton - huge pastrified concoctions filled with a custardy-type filling...

they were called Beastings IIRC..

never found them anywhere else...

[BWFC_Insane]

what were them things that bakers used to sell in bolton - huge pastrified concoctions filled with a custardy-type filling...

they were called Beastings IIRC..

never found them anywhere else...

They still sell em. I've always thought they were bee stings......rather than beastings......

[Burnden Paddock]

Aye or just buy pre-cooked pastry flan cases (of whatever size you like) and do the rest......

Well I do try to avoid the horrendous indigestion that I find accompanies processed/pre-made pastry.

I do too usually, but then sometimes you just need a quick result.

Asda extra special pastry cases are ok IMO for an emergency individual portion size manchester tart.

Asda it is then (where are they to be found? In the frozen bit?)

They were seling some biggish fresh uns on Bolton Market t'other week on one of the deli counters. No idea if they're any good. Going to have to try one for myself now. You've started something here BB!