Oh I really miss !!!!!!
Sep 18th 2012, 7:58 pm
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Custard tarts are easy to make at home. No? 
Sep 18th 2012, 8:00 pm
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My Life! Not that it was anything fancy in England, but feels like it has been on hold since we arrived.
Wrapping christmas presents with the christmas lights on in the day snuggled in my warm house.
So Im off, will be back in time for my first winter christmas in 6 years. I tried, time to start living again. Im not at retirement age yet.
Wrapping christmas presents with the christmas lights on in the day snuggled in my warm house.
So Im off, will be back in time for my first winter christmas in 6 years. I tried, time to start living again. Im not at retirement age yet.
Sep 18th 2012, 9:31 pm
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Yes. I make custard tarts for Mr BEVS. He prefers them the day after they have been baked. I would prefer he could go out and buy the blummin' things when he fancied one though. Baking custard tarts is not my idea of a fun time. 
YUM!
Sep 19th 2012, 5:32 am
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i virtually miss everything that's been mentioned here, except football and bingo
Sep 19th 2012, 6:35 am
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Sep 19th 2012, 6:42 am
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Believe me its not for the lack of trying, but there's a certain depth of custard and thickness of pastry required that I just cannot recreate in the home baking environment. The silver foil case and neatly crimpled edges all add to the desired effect that the homemade version sadly cannot provide and the whole can't be arsedness that goes with that.
I like jam doughnuts and whole host of other bakery delights too, but really I think these are best left to the professionals.
I like jam doughnuts and whole host of other bakery delights too, but really I think these are best left to the professionals.
Sep 19th 2012, 8:11 am
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When I come over I'll organise a custard tart party.
Sep 19th 2012, 10:21 am
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An RSVP invite will go out.
I'll need to know how much cream, eggs, sugar, butter and vanilla to buy!!!!
I'll need to know how much cream, eggs, sugar, butter and vanilla to buy!!!!
Sep 19th 2012, 11:03 am
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Believe me its not for the lack of trying, but there's a certain depth of custard and thickness of pastry required that I just cannot recreate in the home baking environment. The silver foil case and neatly crimpled edges all add to the desired effect that the homemade version sadly cannot provide and the whole can't be arsedness that goes with that.
I like jam doughnuts and whole host of other bakery delights too, but really I think these are best left to the professionals.
I like jam doughnuts and whole host of other bakery delights too, but really I think these are best left to the professionals.
top of the silver foil case, the way the custard, delicately browned, dips in the middle, drawing you in to its golden yellowy centre.
The way the custard wobbles ever so slightly when you put it down or the way the whole thing
squidges up when you take it out of the foil.......i could go on but the drool is clogging up my keyboard
Enough to fill a bath
Sep 19th 2012, 11:05 am
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Should I go and buy one from the local bakery, take a picture and post it?
I believe the term for this is genuinely - "Food Porn".
I believe the term for this is genuinely - "Food Porn".
Sep 19th 2012, 11:18 am
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NZ custard tarts are an entirely different beast to the UK species, they need to be made with real eggs and the nutmeg on top makes all the difference.
I can live without them but every time I go to the UK I try to buy fresh baked pasties if I'm in the SW, Welsh Cakes in Wales and Eccles Cakes and proper Bakewell tarts if I'm up north. None of that Mr Kipling stuff either!
Sep 19th 2012, 11:42 am
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Its the subtle balance between crumbly yet ever so slightly moist pastry that peeps temptingly over the
top of the silver foil case, the way the custard, delicately browned, dips in the middle, drawing you in to its golden yellowy centre.
The way the custard wobbles ever so slightly when you put it down or the way the whole thing squidges up when you take it out of the foil.......i could go on but the drool is clogging up my keyboard
top of the silver foil case, the way the custard, delicately browned, dips in the middle, drawing you in to its golden yellowy centre.
The way the custard wobbles ever so slightly when you put it down or the way the whole thing squidges up when you take it out of the foil.......i could go on but the drool is clogging up my keyboard
The big question of the day, room temperature or cold? I remember the big custard tart debate when some new EU law said that they had to be kept in the fridge.
I like a cold one myself.
Sep 19th 2012, 12:40 pm
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Room temp for flavour, fridge for texture.