Ingredients
Method
Make the pastry
- Whisk the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Rub in the cold butter with your fingertips until the mix looks like coarse crumbs with a few pea-sized pieces. Stir in the ice water 1 tablespoon at a time until the dough clumps, then press it into a disc, wrap it and chill for 30 minutes.
- While the dough chills, heat the oven to 190 C / 375 F (170 C fan) and grease a 12-hole tart tin with 7 cm / 2.75-inch cups using the soft butter.
- Roll the chilled dough on a floured surface to 3 mm thick. Cut twelve 10 cm / 4-inch rounds, re-rolling the scraps once, and press one round into each cup.
Fill and bake
- Whisk the melted butter and brown sugar until smooth. Whisk in the eggs and vinegar, then stir in the dried fruit and walnuts.
- Spoon the filling into the cases, stirring between scoops so the fruit is spread evenly. Fill each case only three-quarters full, because the sugar bubbles up as it bakes and sticks overfilled tarts to the tin.
- Bake on the middle rack for 20 to 22 minutes, until the filling is puffed and dark golden with no wobble and the pastry edges are golden brown.
- Cool the tarts in the tin for 15 minutes. Loosen each one with a small knife and move it to a wire rack.
Notes
- Chill the dough for at least 30 minutes so the cases hold their shape.
- Cool the melted butter for a few minutes before whisking in the eggs.
- Fill the cases three-quarters full, never to the rim.
- Loosen the tarts with a small knife after 15 minutes of cooling in the tin.
