Curd Tarts

When someone, not from Yorkshire, thinks of a Curd Tart, I am fairly sure you are thinking of a lemon curd for a lemon meringue pie, but my friends if you are from Yorkshire, which my mom is, you will immediately think of a curd tart, which is literally that. Cheese curd, dried fruit, eggs, sugar, and a liqueur of some form in a tart shell. Now in Yorkshire you can buy fresh curd from the butcher, but in Canada not so much.

 So, that is what I made.

I started with a cheese making kit that I was given for Christmas. The cheese making kit was for Feta, now I started with every possible intention of making said Feta, but did not get to those dizzy heights. The kit asks you to turn 4 litres of milk into cheese over the course of 2 days, yes 2 days, it was worth it I promise. Yield is low but the taste was heavenly.


4 litres of milk yielded around 500 grams of cheese, or curd if you will.











Recipe time:

• 500 g fresh curd
• 2 eggs
• 100 g sugar (or less)
• handful of dried fruit (sultana's, raisins, currants, cherries, blueberries, cranberries)
• choose 1, for this I used cranberries
• 2 tbsp of liquor (brandy, rum, amaretto, grand mariner)
• choose 1, for this I used amaretto

1. Put all of your ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix until everything is well combined. 
2. Preheat oven to 325 - 350 degrees F
3. Spray 14 small tart shell forms and fill almost to the lip of the foil tray. 
4. Place in oven for about 20 minutes, then let cool and enjoy. 

These are traditionally eaten cold, but I found them delicious either way. Now for this I did not make a tart shell I used the tin as my tart shell. This makes this treat gluten free, and I did not find a shell necessary. Some out there might call it blasphemy that I did not make tart shells but it was a personal choice and sometimes a tart shell ruins the overall deliciousness of dessert, depends on the tart shell.

You did read that right, it took me two days and 4 litres of milk to make 14 small tarts, still I say it was worth it, and I would do it again in a heart beat.