Any Ideas anyone?? gypsy tart?

pcyam

Sorry if this is in the wrong section

But there use to be a pudding in my old primary school, and I've asked everyone I can think of that makes/bakes cakes and no one knows what I am talking about.

Basically, it has a tart pastry base, and then it has a sweet filling, its light brown if i can remember, I saw something once on Gary Rhodes but it all and only saw the end result, I think he said it was made with demerara sugar. Any Ideas anyone???

magentadreamer

Sounds like treacle tart to me!

Country_Bumpkin_5

I remember something like that too - maybe Butterscotch? Or something called Gypsy tart?

squeaky

It might show up somewhere in the link below for schooldays recipes:-

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=15419

KatieF

What sort of texture was the filling? My suggestion is fudge tart but i think that is cambridgeshire-specific

D&DD

Think you're talking about caramel tart (my mum was a dinner lady )

gothgirl

Think Country Bumpkin is right,I, for my sins,am a dinner lady.And gypsy tart is still asked for by the teachers!But we are no longer able to provide such [unhealthy?] but well loved food,Thanks to Jamie Oliver.There must be dartboard's all over the country with his photo tacked to them.Every time we have to discontinue one of the childrens favourites,you can hear the little darlings,cussing him off under their breaths in the dinner queue.I think most mothers would be horrified if they knew [1] how much of the healthy food we offer gets thrown away.[2]That because most schools are now cafe style.That some children eat pizza every day.[3]That in my school [at least] there are 9/10 year old girls who have a tbs of pasta and salad for dinner.Because they don't want to get fat!And they are never the ones who need to cut down.I apologise if I have wandered off subject.Please feel free to move this post to somewhere more fitting if this is the case.

Miss_Behaving

This recipe seems similar to the Gary Rhodes' one...

http://thefoody.com/pudding/gypsytart.html

HTH

FunkyFairy

Is it not Gypsey Tart.

I have a recipe. My sisters school did a cook book with all the school recipes in it as a fund raiser.

I will dig it out for you. Might be tomorrow though.

pcyam

KatieF wrote:

What sort of texture was the filling? My suggestion is fudge tart but i think that is cambridgeshire-specific

Thanks everyone,

If I remember rightly it was sweet, brown and smooth filling on a crunchy pastry base.

Sounds like it could be a gypsy tart. I'll have to try it out and i'll let you all know if it the right one, (fingers crossed) if its not then I guess I'll have to keep on trying. :j

aurorahelios

There is a Gypsy tart recipe here

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=890491#post890491