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ed325i
12-21-2003, 03:27 PM
My wife baked a dozen butter tarts for a party last night, where none of her American friends have heard of this dessert. For those of you have never heard of butter tarts, imagine small pecan pies with the pecans and sugar replaced with rasins and maple syrup. Is Butter Tart a Canadian dish? I am so used to having them everywhere, and it's weird to discover that so many people have never had one.

Ed
Alex Baumann
12-21-2003, 04:23 PM
We need pics !!! :bigpimp:

:yumyum:
Pete Teoh
12-21-2003, 04:35 PM
I've never had Butter Tart before... and I'm a foodie. It sounds delicious though. :yummy: Sounds similar to a French-Canadian dessert I had called tarte au sucre that I had in Quebec City. No raisins in that one though.
TeamM3
12-21-2003, 06:21 PM
We need pics !!! :bigpimp:

:yumyum:



:google: :tsk:


http://www.cooksco.com/images/tart.jpg



http://www.buttertartstodiefor.ca/ :p
The Roadstergal
12-21-2003, 06:22 PM
I hadn't heard of them, but I want some!
TeamM3
12-21-2003, 06:28 PM
butter your tart, Miss? :eeps:
HW
12-21-2003, 10:44 PM
mmm.. butter tarts ... :yummy: but oh so damn fattening :(

and the nanaimo bar :yummy:

<img src="http://www.lodgingnanaimo.com/images/nanaimobar.jpg">
BlackChrome
12-21-2003, 11:33 PM
That's funny...

I lived in BC for a year and I never had one! :dunno:

(Then again, I stayed with a family that moved from Idaho...)
ed325i
12-22-2003, 03:16 PM
...Sounds similar to a French-Canadian dessert I had called tarte au sucre that I had in Quebec City...

That's exactly it. Butter Tart = Tarte Au Sucre with raisins.

Ed
MD2b
12-22-2003, 05:30 PM
My wife baked a dozen butter tarts for a party last night, where none of her American friends have heard of this dessert. For those of you have never heard of butter tarts, imagine small pecan pies with the pecans and sugar replaced with rasins and maple syrup. Is Butter Tart a Canadian dish? I am so used to having them everywhere, and it's weird to discover that so many people have never had one.

Ed

Don't give away our secrets! ;)

Hmm now I will go on a quest for a butter tart. Thanks Ed! :mad: :D


Have you tried the PC "lassy mogs" cookies? They remind me of pumpkin pie plus the chewy fruit. Quite tasty IMO.
ed325i
12-22-2003, 07:20 PM
...Have you tried the PC "lassy mogs" cookies? They remind me of pumpkin pie plus the chewy fruit. Quite tasty IMO.

Nope. I've never been any further east than Ottawa, unless you count Europe.

My wife will be make more butter tarts in the next couple of days.

Ed