Treacle tart

Treacle tart
Treacle tart with clotted cream
Course	Dessert
Place of origin	United Kingdom
Serving temperature	Hot or warm
Main ingredients	Shortcrust pastry, golden syrup, breadcrumbs, lemon juice
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Treacle tart is a traditional British dessert.

Dessert

It is prepared using shortcrust pastry, with a thick filling made of golden syrup, also known as light treacle, breadcrumbs, and lemon juice or zest. A modern alternative recipe uses ground almonds in place of the breadcrumbs. The tart is normally served hot or warm with a scoop of clotted cream, ordinary cream, ice cream or custard. Some more recent recipes add cream, eggs, or broth, to make a softer filling.

Treacle bread is a homemade bread popular in Ireland and is similar to soda bread but with the addition of treacle.

In popular culture

The "Treacle Tart" was the recipient of the 2012 Shekie Award for Pie of the Year. It narrowly defeated the Pecan Pie in the Pie-Off during episode 108 of the Dave Dameshek Football Program.^[1]

In the Harry Potter series, Harry's favorite dessert is treacle tart, a dessert often found at the Hogwarts feasts.

This dessert featured in the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The childcatcher, in an attempt to lure out the children from the basement, calls out that he is giving away free sweets.

"Treacle tart" is Cockney rhyming slang for "sweetheart".^[2]

References

British pies

Sweet	Apple pie Bakewell tart Banoffee pie Bedfordshire clanger Black bun Custard tart Manchester tart Mince pie Rhubarb pie Treacle tart

Savoury	Bacon and egg pie Bedfordshire clanger Bridie Butter pie Chicken and mushroom pie Corned beef pie Cornish pasty Cottage pie Cumberland pie Curry pie Devizes pie Fish pie Game pie Homity pie Killie pie Meat and potato pie Melton Mowbray pork pie Pork pie Scotch pie Shepherd's Pie Squab pie Stargazy pie Steak pie Steak and kidney pie Steak and oyster pie Woolton pie

Manufacturers	Clark's Pies Dickinson & Morris Fray Bentos Ginsters Higgidy Holland's Pies Mr Kipling Peter's Poole's Pork Farms Pukka Pies Shire Foods Square Pie Wall's Wrights Pies

English cuisine

Periods

Roman times

Dishes	Sausages

Middle Ages

Exemplars	The Forme of Cury (c. 1390)

Dishes	Apple pie Bacon Banbury cake Cheesecake Custard Game pie Gingerbread Kippers Mince pie Mortis Pasty Pease pudding Pie Pottage

16th century

Exemplars	Thomas Dawson (The Good Huswifes Jewell, 1585)

Dishes	Black pudding Fruit fool Pancake Scones Syllabub Trifle (without jelly)

17th century

Exemplars	Elinor Fettiplace (Receipt Book, 1604) Gervase Markham (The English Huswife, 1615) Robert May (The Accomplisht Cook, 1660) Hannah Woolley (The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet 1670) John Evelyn (Acetaria a Discourse of Sallets 1699) Sir Kenelm Digby (The Closet Opened 1699)

Dishes	Battalia pie Currant bun Queen of Puddings Sponge cake Sussex pond pudding Sweet and sour Tea

18th century

Exemplars	Mary Kettilby (A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts 1714) John Nott (The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary, 1723) Eliza Smith (The Compleat Housewife 1727) Hannah Glasse (The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy 1747) Elizabeth Raffald (The Experienced English Housekeeper 1769) Richard Briggs (The English Art of Cookery 1788) William Augustus Henderson (The Housekeeper's Instructor 1790?)

Dishes	Bread and butter pudding Christmas pudding Chutney Cottage or Shepherd's pie Eccles cake Jellied eels Jugged hare Ketchup Marmalade Parkin Piccalilli Pork pie Roast beef Sandwich Scouse Suet pudding Toad in the hole Trifle (with jelly) Welsh rabbit Yorkshire pudding

19th century

Exemplars	Mrs Rundell (A New System of Domestic Cookery 1806) Eliza Acton (Modern Cookery for Private Families 1845) Charles Elmé Francatelli (The Modern Cook 1846) Isabella Beeton (Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management 1861)

Dishes	Bubble and squeak Cauliflower cheese Cobbler Devilled kidneys Faggots Fish and chips Full English breakfast HP Sauce Ice cream cone Lancashire hotpot Potted shrimps Sausage roll Steak and kidney pudding Battenberg cake Eton mess Eve's pudding Jam roly-poly Lardy cake Madeira cake Summer pudding Worcestershire sauce

20th century

Exemplars	Elizabeth David (A Book of Mediterranean Food 1950) Dorothy Hartley (Food in England 1954) Constance Spry & Rosemary Hume (The Constance Spry Cookery Book 1956) Marguerite Patten (Everyday Cook Book in Colour 1968) Jane Grigson (Vegetable Book 1978) Delia Smith (How to Cheat at Cooking 1971) Rick Stein (English Seafood Cookery 1988) Nigel Slater (Real Fast Food 1992, Kitchen Diaries 2005) Keith Floyd (Floyd on Britain and Ireland 1988) Marco Pierre White (White Heat 1990) Nigella Lawson (How to Eat 1998) Jamie Oliver (The Naked Chef 1999) Fergus Henderson (Nose to Tail Eating, 1999) Gordon Ramsay Gary Rhodes (New British Classics 1999)

Dishes	Bakewell tart Beef Wellington Carrot cake Chicken tikka masala Crumble Knickerbocker glory Ploughman's lunch Salad cream

21st century

Exemplars	Michel Roux Jr. (Le Gavroche) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (River Cottage) Antony Worrall Thompson (GI Diet 2005) Heston Blumenthal (The Fat Duck) Mary Berry (Baking Bible 2009) Clarissa Dickson Wright (A History of English Food 2011)

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Treacle tart

Dessert

In popular culture

See also

References

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