Cherry lattice tart

[GeorginaA]

Help!

I used to (well, okay - it was in one of my school recipe books, that's how long ago it was) have a recipe for a cherry lattice tart only I've lost it. Anyone got a really easy one (preferably cheaty with a tin of cherry pie filling... although I am prepared to make my own shortcrust pastry, I just can't face stoning all those cherries...) I could scrounge?

Ta!

4 oz butter
8 oz flour
1 tsp sugar
water

make pastry, rub fat in to flour til resembles breadcrumbs, stir in sugar and enough iced water to bind. Wrap in cling film and chill 30 mins

divide pastry in two thirds and one third. Roll out bigger piece and line tart case, blind bake in med oven 15 minutes. Pour in can o' pie filling if you must, or bottled stoned morrello cherries, draining their juice and heating it gently in a pan adding 2 tsp of arrowroot an whisking well and a dash of kirsh or some such liquor and an extra tablespoon of sugar.

Roll out remaining pastry and cut in to strips and weave your lattice. Brush top with milk, beaten egg and a pinch of salt and sprinkle top with granulated sugar, bake in med oven, standing tart tin on a bakin sheet, for 25 minutes.

God, I love writing out recipes, the outside world is blanked out and I am at last in a sea of calm. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Oh suzywong you are a STAR... I thought the silence meant no-one had one

You can get pre-stoned cherries bottled?! Okay... going for them then

yeah, you can. Usually imported from Eastern Europe. I would put no more than half a pint of the juice in the pan with the arrowroot. You can always thin it down.

Don't forget the clotted cream to serve.

Oh I won't ... although the kids are boring and will only have vanilla icecream... weirdies...