Manchester Tart

600ml (1 pint) Milk
110g (4oz) Shortcrust Pastry
3 tbsp Raspberry Jam
3 tbsp Custard Powder
2-3 tbsp Desiccated Coconut
2 tbsp Sugar
1 Banana, sliced

Pre-heat oven to 200°C; 400°F: Gas 6.
Roll out the dough and line a baking dish.
Blind bake
Bake for 15 minutes.
Allow to cool.
Spread the jam over the pastry base, add sliced banana
Boil the milk and whisk into the sugar and custard powder (follow manufacturers instructions).
Pour into the pastry case.
Sprinkle with coconut or a little sugar, to prevent a skin forming.
Allow to cool before serving.

If you would prefer to make your own confectioners custard instead of using the custard power, then eliminate the powder, milk and sugar from the above recipe. Below are the ingredients for confectioners custard. just pour into the pastry the same way as mentioned above:

Vanilla flavoured Confectioners Custard
Makes 250 ml (approx)
l egg
1 egg yolk
50 g caster sugar
25 g plain flour
250 ml milk
a few drops vanilla.
essence

Manchester tart...

good recipe j-m will try that out

I did get the recipe for the confectioners custard off the web, so I have no idea how it will turn out!

I used to love this at school with custard - real winter comfort food

So how would one describe manchester tart, as I am trying to work out if it crossed the pennines or not.

I went to school at the Barnsley/Sheffield border and we had it at school for pudding but then some bits of Barnsley ARE the Peninnes so you do tend to get a lot of Lancashire food there to a degree.

It's a tart with a layer of jam, a layer of sliced banana and then topped with set custard. I've never had it served as anything other than Manchester Tart but that doesn't mean to say that they have it in other regions by another name.

Right, thanks, not something I remember, but then again with my aversion to bananas I probably just complained bitterly when we had it served at school (Rotherham)

We moved around a lot and I have always known it as Manchester Tart, can't remember it having bananas in though

Errrm, I lived in Manchester for 34 years, I don't remember anything called Manchester Tarts! But I think they sound like 'custards' as we and the bakers used to call them at the bakery - set custard in a pastry case, but no jam at the bottom.


Why spoil the fun, that's the best bit!

Sprinkled with nutmeg and warm from the oven, delicious!

Eccles cakes (pastry full of currants) and sausage rolls, were also part of my daily bakery visits!

they are different - egg custards, although I don't why I am disputing this because I don't like anything with cold custard in (including trifle)

My dad used to rabbit on about "Manchester Tart" (it was his favourite apparently)from the days when he was in the navy ...wish I'd had that recipe 18 years ago !

mmm, egg custards and eccles cakes! Warm eccles cakes, probably dangerous to eat whilst driving.

How do you make a sausage roll...

Push it down a hill.

I think all these recipes are open to negotiation. Anyone who has ever been and bought a real Bakewell tart will see that it bears no resemblance at all to what Mr. Kipling offers! The recipe I have for Man Tart uses bananas, which means it must be fairly recent, as bananas were considered exotic when I were a lass, so I am pretty sure that this is not the original version by any stretch.

The Manchester Tart I have had is very sweet with a filling like you would get in a vanilla slice, whereas what I would call an egg custard is much paler and not so sweet. I'm not picky though - I would wolf both down!

I am off now for a week in Yorkshire. I will of course sample one or two egg custards and will no doubt manage to swing by Bakewell for a *real* bakewell tart. If I look very fat on my return, it is, of course, me hormones playing up and not all these puddings, OK?

Manchester Tart was a regular on our school dinners menu back in Yorkshire ! It wasn´t one of my favourites though (I was more into chocolate pudding with chocolate custard & treacle sponge!).

I remember it at school too, all this food talk is making me hungry...