leftover Shortcrust pastry

Rikki

hayley1471 wrote: »

Rikki - sounds perfect. Thank you!

There is also Treacle Tart but you would have to send me a slice if you make this.

spaghetti_monster

Have a very small piece of pastry left over - about enough for 6 individual small tarts - which of course I don't want to throw away!

Any ideas what I can do with it??? Something quite simple?? I have quite a few of the storecupboard essentials plus eggs, butter, bit of cream.

The main thing I'm making is a walnut tart (trying to work my way through the kilos of walnuts my in-laws gave me!)

The recipe I'm following had me make the pastry with a bit of orange zest and bound together with orange juice - so maybe a sweet solution would be best??
Or can anyone think of a savoury combination with orange pastry???

Thanks!
Alex x

apple_mint

I've been popping my left over pastry into the freezer until I have enough to make a quiche

What about jam tarts? Or perhaps little marmalade ones to go with the orange pastry?

spaghetti_monster

I've got some fruits of the forest jam, but no marmalade - that's a nice idea!

I really like jam tarts but OH doesn't - so the danger with this idea is that I'll end up eating them (as well as some of the walnut tart!)

C1aire

Is it very orange-y? Would it work if you rolled it out thin and tried to get it crispy in the oven so you have a sort of wafer-y thing to go with ice-cream maybe?

My brother and I were always given leftover pastry to play with when we were little. Occasionally my mother horrified us by cooking what we'd made. We were never so keen to eat our creations as we were to eat hers! :rotfl:

Seakay

A version of Eccles cakes? I'm thinking little pasties filled with currants/mixed fruit/mincemeat.

Rikki

Mix some grated cheese into it and make cheese straws.:drool:


Opps....just read its orangy pastry so maybe the cheese isn't such a good idea _pale_

tanith

What about mince pies... I always add some orange zest to the pastry when I make mince pies it makes them really yummy....

spaghetti_monster

Oooo - like the eccles cake idea!!

I also lurve cheese in all forms and types, but yes with orange, maybe not a good idea.....and it is quite orangy

Whenever me, brother and sister tried to eat leftover pastry and cake mix my Mum would tell us that eating this stuff raw would give us worms in our tummies........

beemuzed

I was going to suggest the eccles cake thing too - great memories of making these from leftovers when I was knee-high to the proverbial grasshopper! Don't think Mum ever set out to make them, it was always a leftover thing!