Almond tart recipes turn up in a variety of period cookbooks and in a range of style from tarts made strictly with almond milk and no animal products suitable for a fast day through almond milk tarts thickened with eggs and more like this one that is an almond custard. The Cookbook of Sabina Welserin records six recipes for almond tarts including this one. I have only done these up as small tarts, either in mini-muffin tin or in small individual dishes, so the quantities are on the small side, but it doesn't take much to fill a tiny tart.

• 1 cup milk

• 1 cup finely ground toasted almonds

• 2 beaten eggs

• Pinch of salt

• pastry dough of your choice (See Pastry Dough for a recipe)

Line  greased mini-muffin tin with pastry. Mix milk, eggs, almonds and salt.  and pour into unbaked pastry shells, keeping filling well mixed as you work to keep almonds from settling out of custard.  Bake at 400  for 15-19 minutes,  filling will puff up during baking and settle some as it cools.

Makes a very tender tart, make sure to grease pans to get a little browning of the pastry.

Larger tarts can also be made such as the ones at right that were baked under a cloche in a charcoal fire.  Larger tarts will take longer to bake.

76 An almond tart

Shell the almonds, pound them very small and strain them through a copper sieve. Take cream or sweet milk, take five or six egg yolks and let it bake. If you would like, you can mix rose water in with it, or else not.

 Original Recipe taken from Valoise Armstrong's Translation of The Cookbook Of Sabina Welserin, 1553 which can be accessed at http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Sabrina_Welserin.html

above cloche baked almond tarts in two sizes.

Other recipes from this manuscript

• Apple Puffs
• Apple Pillows 
• Cherry Puffs
• Chard Pie
• Dutch Oven Custard
• Pastry Dough
• Puffed Apples
• Raison Pie
• Rice Buns

Other dessert recipes

• Apple Fritters
• Bryndons
• Dulcamine
• Frytours of Mylke
• German French Toast
• Imperial Fritters
• Ofella
• Wardyns in Syrup
• White Fritters
• White Torte
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• Some mini-tarts fresh from the oven.