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Recipes with sweet shortcrust pastry

3 recipes that use sweet shortcrust pastry, with photos, step-by-step instructions and cook times. The quickest, Manchester tart, takes 60 minutes. It is most often cooked with caster sugar, cornflour and milk.

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Quandong pie

Quandongs, the bright red desert peaches of the outback, have been gathered by Aboriginal people across Central and South Australia for thousands of years, and in the Flinders Ranges and towns like Quorn the bakeries sell quandong pie to travellers. The fruit is tart and tangy, somewhere between peach, apricot and rhubarb. Most people buy it dried or frozen from native food suppliers; dried quandong is soaked first. A common mistake is too little sugar, as the fruit is very sharp. Chef's tip: if you can't get quandong, use a mix of fresh apricots and a little rhubarb.

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Bakewell tart

The Derbyshire market town of Bakewell in the Peak District is home to the Bakewell pudding, and its descendant, the Bakewell tart, is the one baked in every English home and village tea shop. Shortcrust is spread with raspberry jam and filled with a soft almond frangipane, then scattered with flaked almonds. Chef's tip: spread the jam thinly and leave a 1 cm border, or it boils up through the frangipane.

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Manchester tart

Manchester tart is the school-dinner pudding generations of Mancunians remember: a shortcrust case spread with raspberry jam, filled with thick, cold vanilla custard and covered in desiccated coconut, sometimes with a glacé cherry on top. It is a nostalgic Northern bake for birthdays and school reunions. Chef's tip: make the custard really thick and cool it a little before pouring, so it sets in clean slices.

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Goes well with sweet shortcrust pastry