Heart to Hearth Cookery

The Tart Baked!

I was overwhelmed by the interest in my post on a Tart of Strawberries that I am posting more information.  The  1653 receipt is A Tart of Straw-Berries and the auther is Anonymous.  The strawberries available at that time were the very small wood strawberries.  If I do not have enough of the small berry, I try to find the smallest of the local berries to use.  I put them in past..one by another as thick as you can and then take Sugar, Cinamon, and a little Ginger finely beaten, and well mingled together, cast them upon your Straw-berries.  The actual receipt (recipe) has the strawberries covered with a lid  finely cut into Lozenges.  Because I was using a heart-shaped redware baking dish I opted to leave off the Lozenges for the look that I wanted.