Welsh cheese tarts

bouicca21

At this time of year people make mince pies.  I don’t but I do like the Welsh cheese tarts that my MiL made instead.  No cheese involved - basically a jam tart with a topping of Victoria sponge.

i quite fancy making some this year but I’m a singleton so even a smallish batch is going to be too much.  Are they likely to be freezable?

YorksLass

Yes, I think they would be OK to freeze.  I do that with baked rich coconut tarts (jam in the bottom with a topping of marg/sugar/coconut/egg) and once defrosted they're fine.

p00hsticks

bouicca21 said:

 No cheese involved - basically a jam tart with a topping of Victoria sponge.

I read the title and got interested - you've disappointed me now!

Auntycaz

I thought you meant the Lincolnshire/Yorkshire curd tarts that i remember  making when i was  younger. I've only seen them in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire..They were made with cheese curds.

bouicca21

Sorry to disappoint.  I have no idea why they have cheese in the name.   But that’s what MIL called them and a quick Google suggests others do too.

Brie

p00hsticks said:

bouicca21 said:

 No cheese involved - basically a jam tart with a topping of Victoria sponge.

I read the title and got interested - you've disappointed me now!

Likewise!!  I was hoping they might end up being something like the tart I had as a starter earlier this month.  A carmelised red onion and goat's cheese tart served at the Radnorship Arms in Beguildy.  Most excellent!! 

-taff

*is now on a mission to make some cheesy welsh tarts with actual cheese because they sound like they should be really good*

bouicca21

Brie said:

p00hsticks said:

bouicca21 said:

 No cheese involved - basically a jam tart with a topping of Victoria sponge.

I read the title and got interested - you've disappointed me now!

Likewise!!  I was hoping they might end up being something like the tart I had as a starter earlier this month.  A carmelised red onion and goat's cheese tart served at the Radnorship Arms in Beguildy.  Most excellent!! 

I do make something like that.  Ready roll puff pastry, score all the way round half to an inch in.  Spread with Dijon mustard.  Chop and caramelise the onions, spread over the mustard.  At this point I top with a mix of breadcrumbs and grated Parmesan but I’m sure goats cheese would work fine.  Bake.  Enjoy.

Am I forgiven for leading everyone up the wrong garden kitchen path?

Brambling

Add to roast beetroot to the goat cheese and caramelised onion tart 😋

looking at welsh cheese tarts they look like something my mum would make when we were children i don't remember her calling them anything. 

When having a browse I came across London cheesecake which also doesn't have cheese or resembles a cheesecake not one I've heard of before but it seems used to be sold in greggs 

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/610608/recipe/london-cheesecake

bouicca21

@Brambling. This is what we knew as cheesecake when I was a child.   Haven’t seen them in bakeries for decades.

London_1

Gosh I loved London cheese cakes as a child, being a Londoner born and bred my late Mum used to buy me one as a treat from the bakers van if I had done well at school or I had done something to please her. I always remember when the 'cheese cakes' as we know them now came on the market
I was totally confused as to me a cheesecake was flaky pastry square cake, with jam inside and the top had a soft icing with shredded strands of icing covered coconut.

But then to me cup cakes were normally sold in 'Joe Lyons' and were a chocolate sponge base with a thick chocolate topping in a tinfoil case, and when you peeled back the tinfoil base you also scraped out the bits of chocolate icing stuck to the tinfoil case. London kids never wasted anything edible  

And muffins were about an inch or so thick and had a seedy base bit like a thick roll, and to and you cut them in half through the middle and toasted them, they were gorgeous with butter 

My late Mother loved Bath Olivers which I thought were really boring biscuits, she also liked Lincoln biscuits that looked like little round biscuits with 'cobbles ' on the top

Today I barely recognise the cakes from when I was small. I can remember when ring doughnuts came on the market in the late 1950s they were called 'Dunkies and four to a packet for a shilling 1/- (5p), both our Bakers van sold them and the milkman got them onto his horse and cart deliveries, and had a glazed sugar coating with the hole in the middle.

Jam doughnuts were always oozing with strawberry jam that normally ended up dripping down your chin  or long doughnuts had a dark brown outside and split down the middle filled with cream and a dribble of jam on top.

It was just so amazing when rationing finished and you could buy these delicious things. Though my late Mum usually made her own cakes small and large for the family, it was a 'treat' day if we had a shop bought cake  

JackieO xx