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# Ecclefechan Butter Tart · Rampant Scotland

Recipes

# Ecclefechan Butter Tart

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*Traditional Scottish Recipes*
 *- Ecclefechan Butter Tart*

*When travel writer Bruce Stannard from [Scots Heritage Magazine](http://www.scotsheritage.net/) was staying at Coul House Hotel he was so impressed by the Ecclefechan Butter Tart that he asked for the recipe. Here it is. As for Ecclefechan, that's a small town in Dunfries and Galloway where the influential philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle was born.*

## Ingredients

- 2 Beaten eggs

6oz (200 gms or just under one US cup) soft brown sugar

1 tbsp vinegar

8oz (250 gms or One and a quarter US cups) mixed dried fruit

2oz (50 gms) chopped walnuts

Prepared shortcrust pastry

4oz (125 gms or one stick) melted butter

## Method

Mix the sugar, butter and beaten eggs together. Stir in the vinegar, then add mixedfiruit and nuts. Line patty tins with pastry and put a spoonful of the mixture into each. Bake in a fairly hot oven (190C/375F/Gas Mark 5) for 20-25 minutes.

## Source

From Rampant Scotland, restored from the page as it stood on 14 July 2025. [Original page](https://web.archive.org/web/20250714130049/http://www.rampantscotland.com/recipes/blrecipe_ecclefechan.htm).

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