Currant Tartlets Recipe

Ingredients for Currant Tartlets Recipe

• 1/3 cup currants
• 3 tablespoons ground rice
• 2 whites of eggs
• 4 tablespoons vegetable shortening
• ¾ cup sponge cake crumbs
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons chopped candied orange peel
• ½ teaspoon lemon extract
• Pinch of salt
• vegetable shortening pastry
• 1 tablespoon cream

Instructions

1. Cream vegetable shortening and sugar together, and ground rice, crumbs, peel, currants, cream, salt, lemon extract, and whites of eggs well beaten.
2. Roll out pastry, cut into rounds, line some vegetable shorteninged tartlet tins with rounds, put in each a tablespoon of the mixture.
3. Bake tartlets in moderate oven from twelve to fifteen minutes.
4. Or, these tartlets may be covered with frosting, and a little chopped cocoanut sprinkled over tops.
5. Sufficient for nine tartlets.