Banbury tarts
6 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ¼ | cup | Sugar | 
| 2 | tablespoons | Shortening | 
| ½ | cup | Currants | 
| 1½ | tablespoon | Minced candied orange peel | 
| 1½ | tablespoon | Minced candied lemon peel | 
| ⅛ | teaspoon | Nutmeg | 
| ⅛ | teaspoon | Cinnamon | 
| ½ | Egg, slightly beaten | |
| 2 | tablespoons | Cookie or biscuit crumbs | 
| 1½ | tablespoon | Minced candied citron | 
Directions
Cream shortening and sugar.  Add candied peel, citron, currants, crumbs, nutmeg, cinnamon, and egg.  Mix thoroughly. Cut plain pastry in rounds 6 inches in diameter. Place 1 tablespoon of fruit mixture on ½ of each round.  Moisten edges.  Fold like a turnover. Press edges together. Crimp. Brush with slightly beaten egg, or water. 
Sprinkle with sugar. Bake in hot oven (450 F) 10 minutes, or until brown.
Florence Taft Eaton, Concord, MA.