Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

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3 oz Flour
2 oz Butter
3/4 oz Icing sugar
2 ts Cold water

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Juice of a small lemon
2 oz Caster sugar
1 Egg
Icing sugar for dusting

Set oven to 375F or Mark 5. Grease deep patty tins (makes
approximately six tarts). Sift the flour into a bowl. Rub in the
butter and add the icing sugar. Add suff cient of the water to makea
moist dough. Roll out on a floured surface, cut into rounds and line
the patty tins. Bake blind for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and
reduce temperature to 350F or Mark 4. Meanwhile beat together the
egg, caster sugar and lemon juice. Fill the pastry cases with the
mixture and bake until set and the pastry is nicely browned. Serve
hot or cold, but do not chill in the refrigerator.

From the booklet Scottish Teatime Recipes

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