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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28371, 2 September 1957, Page 2

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with Elizabeth Mayfair Tartlets

So many of the extravagant looking little afternoon tea dainties are very sweet that these Mayfair Tartlets come as a most refreshing change, for they have a slight bitter-sweet flavour that is as delightful as it is unusual. Make them small and dainty and they look as exotic as anyone could wish, yet.they are not difficult to make.

Mayfair Tartlets: 4oz butter, 4oz sugar, Boz flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, f teaspoon salt, 1 egg, about loz dark unsweetened cooking chocolate if available; if not a piece of dark sweet chocolate; 1 tin grapefruit, 1 teaspoon arrowroot. Mock cream: 3oz butter, 3 dessertspoons sugar, J pint milk, 2 dessertspoons cornflour, vanilla essence or a few drops of sherry. Make up the shortcake and chill until cold and firm (or use 1 packet of sweet shortcake pastry). Roll as thin as possible and stamp out with a fluted 2 Jin cutter. Place the circles over the bottoms of inverted patty tins and prick well. Bake until golden, lift off immediately and cool on a rack. Melt chocolate in a cup standing in a pan of hot water. With a clean paint-brush brush out the inside of all the cases and set aside or chill to harden. Make mock cream by creaming 3oz butter with 3 dessertspoons of sugar and beating until white and light. Heat 1 cup of milk, thicken with 2 dessertspoons of cornflour mixed with a little milk and cook, stirring, until smooth. When quite cold combine with the butter mixture and a few drops of sherry or vanilla and whisk until light and creamy. Chill until required. Drain the tinned grapefruit. Heat the juice and thicken with a teaspoon arrowroot mixed with a little of the cold juice. When required, spread some mock cream in the bottom of eacn chocolate lined shell and chill. Arrange a piece of grapefruit over the cream, and spoon a very little glaze over it. Pipe a ruffle of mock cream round. The drawback to most small fruit tartlets with a shortcake shell is that they are apt to soften. These win not and may be prepared even a day ahead and stored in a refrigerator until required.