Name: Festive fruity mince tartlets
Yield: 24 servings
Cuisine: Bake
Ingredients: 225.00 g flour sifted; 125.00 g butter cold, cut into cubes; 125.00 ml sugar; 2.00 eggs just the yolks; 100.00 g figs dried, chopped; 100.00 g prunes pitted and chopped; 50.00 g nectarines dried; 1.00 apples chopped; 2.00 ml mixed spice ground; 1.00 orange zest and juice; 1.00 lemon zest and juice; 1.00 cinnamon stick; 250.00 ml grape juice sweetened; 250.00 ml wine red; 60.00 ml sugar

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Ingredients (15)

PASTRY

225.00 g	flour — sifted
125.00 g	butter — cold, cut into cubes
125.00 ml	sugar
2.00	eggs — just the yolks

FILLING

100.00 g	figs — dried, chopped
100.00 g	prunes — pitted and chopped
50.00 g	nectarines — dried
1.00	apples — chopped
2.00 ml	mixed spice — ground
1.00	orange — zest and juice
1.00	lemon — zest and juice
1.00	cinnamon — stick
250.00 ml	grape juice — sweetened
250.00 ml	wine — red
60.00 ml	sugar

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Method:

Place the flour into a bowl. Mix the butter in with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the sugar and mix in the egg yolks, beaten with 30 ml (2 tbsp) iced water, with a sharp knife.
Bring the mixture together with your hands, wrap in cling wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Roll pastry out thinly onto a floured surface. With a small cookie cutter cut out rounds to fit 2 patty pans trays.
FILLING:
Place all the ingredients into a saucepan. Simmer for 20 minutes or until fruit is soft. Cool.
Spoon mixture into pastry cases and bake at 180 ºC for 10 minutes or until the pastry is light brown.
Serve with crème fraîche.