In celebration of Yorkshire Day, this recipe is said to date back to 1750's. Its interesting because of the addition of rosewater. Curd cheese may be difficult to find. You could make your own or I think you could substitute ricotta.
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
- Enough short crust pastry to line an 8 inch flan tin (make your own or buy ready-made)
- 50g caster sugar
- 200g curd cheese
- 3 large eggs
- 25g melted butter
- Zest of one lemon
- 50g currants
- I tsp rosewater
- A grate or two of nutmeg
- Line a flan tin with the pastry and bake 'blind' for 15 mins at 200C. If you want to be really lazy buy a ready cooked flan case and omit this step.
- Beat the cheese and sugar together, then beat in the melted butter, eggs, rosewater and lemon zest. Lightly mix in the currants.
- Pour the filling into the pastry case and grate nutmeg on top. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes at 180C, until the filling is just set.