Ecclefechan Tart

There’s a little town about 25 miles from me that is associated with a rather delicious tart. The town is Ecclefechan (pronounced Ekkle-FECKan) and in many ways it is really very unremarkable as a town, yet they seem to have this brilliant culinary, history!

I’m not sure if I use the “traditional” recipe or not, but I don’t care because whatever it is, I make it’s really good. 

You’ll need to start by blind baking a pastry case, and you might have to doctor the filling to fit whatever size of pastry case you have blind baked.

for the filling

• 110g butter, melted
• 100g walnuts, chopped
• 175g soft brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 250g mixed dried fruit
• 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar (I have a lovely bottle of Demijohn Apple vinegar that I used in this one!)

Melt the butter and then combine everything pour it all into the pastry case and bake for 30 mins.

Serve hot or cold with ice-cream, double cream, whipped cream… Enjoy!

In March Bloggers around the world are looking for “British” recipes, and this is defiantly one of those!