I was given a jar of honey with walnuts by a friend who has also been given it and did not know what to do with it. I didn’t either until I was looking through a recipe book, saw a recipe for Treacle Tart and thought why not Honey Tart? It worked so here it is! Ingredients · 140g Plain flour · 70g mixed hard marg and lard or all hard marg or butter · 100g fresh breadcrumbs · 7 – 8 tbsp runny honey (stand the jar in warm water to loosen) · Juice of ½ lemon · A handful of roughly chopped walnuts Serves approx 6 – 7 people
Method 1. Heat oven to 200oC, fan oven 180oC, 400oF gas 6 2. Rub the fat into flour until it looks like breadcrumbs 3. Bind to a soft but not sticky dough with a little cold water 4. Roll out to the thickness of a £1 coin on a floured surface and line a flan tin about 20cm diameter 5. Chill while you are preparing the filling 6. Mix the warmed honey, lemon juice and walnuts 7. Place in the pastry case and use any left over pastry to make a lattice top or decorate the top 8. Bake for about 25 – 30 mins until the pastry is golden 9. Best served warm rather than hot Variations Use heather honey to get a real New Forest flavour Use what ever nuts you have to hand Serve with cream although crème fraiche is a pleasant contrast to the sweetness of the tart Leave out the lemon juice and add 1 tbsp of Seville orange marmalade Recipe supplied by Judith Long- Director of New Forest Produce.