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Cream Tea Strawberry Tarts

Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad

These Cream Tea Strawberry Tarts are perfect to have with afternoon tea and they even have a twist, they are made with Strawberry & Pimms Jam!

225 grams	Plain White Flour (Allinson Nature Friendly)
1 pinch	Salt
150 grams	Butter
75 grams	Golden Caster Sugar (Billington's)
1	Free Range Eggs (Happy Eggs) whole
1	Free Range Eggs (Happy Eggs) Yolk
	Jar of good quality strawberry jam

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Oven set at 180°C, 160°C(fan), gas mark 4
To make the pastry – In a mixing bowl, rub the sifted flour, sugar and butter together to form a crumb consistency.
Add the beaten egg and egg yolk and mix to form a dough.
Wrap the dough in clingfilm and refrigerate for 25 minutes or so.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator and knead it on a floured work surface.
Roll out the pastry and cut out 8cm circles.
Put the pastry discs into the tart tin and put a half a tablespoon of strawberry jam in the middle of each.
Bake in the oven until the pastry is crisp and brown.
Please note – sometimes the jam may boil over the tarts – if so readjust the amount of jam added to the tarts