I couldn't find any measuring spoons but I did find a Useful Thing - a pastry rolling mat which is marked so you know how big you've rolled out your pastry! Also a thing I've been meaning to get for ages - a lemon juicing device which catches the pips so you don't get crunchy bits in your pie.
So I needed something to bake to practise using these things, and I couldn't think what to make for a while and then I remembered how good the treacle tarts looked on last year's Great British Bake Off.
Here's the recipe. It even has lemon juice in it!
It took me a few days to get around to buying the ingredients, of course. But this evening I finally tried to make one.
The rolling mat it quite good, but it's hard to tell which line is which when you're not next to the numbers - it might have been better to have stripes than just circles. It's still good to have a flat surface big enough to roll out lots of pastry on though - I used to use a bread board. The lemon juicer got lots more juice from my lemons that my normal method of chopping in half and squeezing them by hand, but it didn't catch all the pips - perhaps I was holding it slanting downwards or something as I was at the kitchen table rather than a worktop.
So here's some pictures:
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| Pastry case ready for filling |
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| Treacle mix to fill the pastry |
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| Tart filled up to the brim! |
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| Lattice on top |
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| Just out of the oven |
