Cooking with Coronation Street: Mavis' Onion Tart

This week's recipe comes from the cookery books of Mavis Wilton. It's a savoury dish that looks so good I might be tempted to try it myself. Who doesn't love the flavours of cheese and onion together? Mavis and Derek were something like that, weren't they? They went as well together. Both slightly odd on their own but together as a couple, they suited down to their toes. The recipe is behind the link below.

Pastry for a one crust 8 inch pie plate (see below)
1/2 tsp dry mustard
2 oz butter
1 1/2 lb onions, finely chopped
2 eggs, beaten
4 fl oz milk
Salt and pepper
2 oz Lancashire cheese, grated (or any sharp cheddar you like)

Make the pastry but add 1/2 tsp dry mustard in with the flour. Put the pastry in the fridge for at least half an hour. Melt the butter in a pan and add the onions. Cook very slowly until they turn deep brown. Keep stirring them. Preheat the oven to 350F. Roll out the pastry and line a greased 8 inch flan tin or pie plate with it. Prick the pastry with a fork and bake blind for 15 minutes. Brush the pastry with a little of the beaten egg and bake for another 5 minutes. Spread onions over flan base. Mix rest of beaten egg with the milk, salt and pepper and pour over the onions. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake for 30 minutes until golden brown.

Shortcrust Pastry
Enough to line an 8 inch pie dish

4 oz flour
Pinch of salt
2 oz margarine (or mix of lard and margarine)
3 tbls water

Sieve the flour and salt into a bowl. Cut the margarine into cubes and add to the flour. Using your fingertips, rub the fat into the flour until it looks like breadcrumbs. Add the cold water a bit at a time and cut and mix through with a table knife so it forms large lumps. Flour your hands and gather the large lumps to form one large ball. the pastry should come away from the bowl cleanly. It it doesn't add a little bit more water. Wrap the pastry in plastic wrap and put in ridge for at least 20-30 minutes. For larger quantities, stick to the formula of half fat to flour.

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