Butter tart
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A butter tart is a type of pastry best known as a Canadian treat. It should not be confused with butter pie (a savoury pie from the Preston area of Lancashire, England) or with bread and butter pudding.
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[edit] Description
The English Canadian tart consists of butter, sugar, and eggs in a pastry shell, similar to the base of the U. S. pecan pie without the nut topping, and similar to the French-Canadian sugar pie. Additional ingredients can include raisins, pecans, walnuts, coconut, dates, butterscotch, chocolate chips, or peanut butter.[citation needed]
[edit] History
Butter tarts were a staple of pioneer Canadian cooking, and they remain a characteristic pastry of Canada, considered one of only a few recipes of genuinely Canadian origin (for example, by the 6th edition of the Collins English Dictionary). One of the earliest known Canadian recipes is from northern Ontario and dates back to 1915.[citation needed]
Similar tarts are made in Scotland, where they are often referred to as Ecclefechan butter tarts from the town of Ecclefechan. In France, although not as common as cuh, they are related to the much more common tarte à la frangipane, that differs from the basic Canadian recipe only by the addition of ground almonds. The origin thus appears to be unknown.[citation needed]
Butter tarts are said to have been a favourite treat of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.[citation needed]
Butter tarts are also referred to in the introduction to the Len song Steal My Sunshine.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Steal My Sunshine lyrics
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