Liverpool Tart

The Liverpool Tart is a type of lemon cake. It has a pastry crust filled with minced boiled lemons and muscovado sugar.[1][2] Also known as a Liverpool Judy, it sometimes has a pastry Liver bird placed on top.[3] The National Trust records that the earliest recording of a Liverpool Tart is from 1897.[4] The cake is thought to have been popular during periods of wartime rationing, since lemons were not rationed.[5] In 2006, a local musician rediscovered the recipe on a website for a Dorset village and decided to promote it.[2]

Liverpool Tart
TypeTart
Place of originUnited Kingdom
Region or stateDorset
Main ingredientsLemon, sugar

Michael Heseltine was presented with a Liverpool tart at a 2010 dinner organized to commemorate 150 years of the Liverpool chamber of commerce.[6] In 2021, a new brasserie pledged to sell the tart with treacle.[7]

See also

References
  1. "The Great British Cake Off: Mapping Traditional British Cakes". www.citybaseapartments.com. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  2. McLoughlin, Jamie (13 October 2017). "Why doesn't Liverpool have a cake to call its own?". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  3. Hosking, Richard (2010). Food and Language: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cooking 2009. Oxford Symposium. ISBN 978-1-903018-79-8.
  4. "Liverpool Tart". National Trust. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  5. Brady, Matt. "Britain's 'secret' regional foods". lovefood.com. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  6. Terazono, Emiko (4 December 2010). "Merseyside memories". Financial Times. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  7. Barton, Phoebe (19 November 2021). "New Liverpool restaurant Barnacle to tell story of city's history". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
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