Unless, you know, they all get eaten. In fact, small sweet fruit-based open tarts have been English cuisine mainstays since the late Middle Ages at the very least. A fruit tart recipe these classic sweet snacks are thought to have evolved from has been found in a document dated all the way back to the 15th century.
The classic jam tart we all know and dearly love though come to be a little later — when the West Indian trade made sugar cheap and accessible, thus making many products earlier reserved for wealthier people accessible for the masses, jam being one of them. Jam — now an affordable, easy-to-make, and long-lasting product — quickly skyrocketed in popularity and consequently sneaked its way into multiple recipes, tarts being one of them.
In short, you can freeze jam tarts because you can freeze jam. The only thing you need to do is be sure that the tarts have fully cooled, before getting them into the freezer. So your tarts are now fully cool. The one thing you need for freezing is a good airtight container that is safe for freezing.
It can be a rigid container made of either plastic or glass, or it can be a flexible container — plastic wrapping or specialized bag with a tight seal these days there are plenty of options from single-use disposable plastic ones to reusable silicone ones.
But if push comes to shove, you could probably still risk it just try to swap them out for a better option as soon as you can — preferably in a couple of days. Cook Time 15 mins. Total Time 45 mins. Course Afternoon tea. Cuisine British. Servings Calories kcal. Make the pastry Weigh the flour out and put it in a large mixing bowl.
Measure the butter and cut into small pieces before adding to your bowl. Measure the sugar and add to the bowl. Crack the egg into the bowl. Make the jam tarts. Lightly flour your work surface and then roll the pastry out until it is about 3mm thick. Use a round cutter, approximately 10cm cut out bases for your tarts. Using a teaspoon, fill each tart case with some jam. Cut out smaller circles of pastry and top your tarts with them.
Bake the jam tarts Pop the tarts into the oven for approximately 10 minutes. Leave them for a minute to cool in the tray then carefully remove each tart from the muffin tin and leave on a wire rack to cool. Keyword jam, pastry. Easy jam tarts. By Miriam Nice. Preparation and cooking time. Prep: 25 mins Cook: 18 mins Plus chilling. Share on facebook.
Share on twitter. Share on pinterest. Email to a friend. Ingredients g plain flour, plus extra for dusting g butter, chilled and diced, plus extra for the tin 1 medium egg 1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped optional g jam, fruit curd or marmalade of your choice Method STEP 1 Put the flour, butter and a pinch of salt in a bowl and rub them together with your fingertips or you can pulse these ingredients together in a food processor if you have one.
Lemon curd is a popular alternative to your usual jam tart. Lemon curd was almost made for jam tarts and is such a popular alternative that it is one of the more common jam tarts you can find after strawberry jam tarts. Lemon curd freezes super well too and this means you can freeze lemon curd jam tarts successfully and they will still be delicious once thawed out.
You can freeze jam tarts for up to about three months — if they last that long before your family eats them all! You may find that you can keep them in the freezer for a little longer than this but it is important to use them before they start to degrade or become freezer burnt. No, we would not recommend that you even attempt to refreeze your jam tarts.
The freezing process does cause some changes in any food and the more you freeze the more changes there will be. Jam tarts do freeze well! There will be almost no change in texture or flavour of the jam and if there is any change to the pastry it will be minimal if you have kept them protected and airtight in the freezer. If instead of making tarts you want to freeze jam itself then this is also possible. Consider the portions of jam you would normally consume then find containers of this size.
You could even use an ice cube tray!
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