Neenish tart

Neenish tart
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A neenish tart, is a tart made with a pastry base, sweet gelatine-set cream, mock cream, or icing sugar paste filling, sometimes with jam, and dried icing on top in two colours, half one colour and half the other. The 2-coloured icings are usually brown ("Chocolate" icing) and white ("Vanilla" icing), pink icing and white, or even brown and pink these days. They are almost exclusively sized as individual servings, 10-12 cm in diameter. This tart was created in Australia[citation needed], and is still mainly only known from there [1], in particular the states of Victoria and New South Wales (as well as the A.C.T.)[2] It is also found in New Zealand. It has a superficial similarity to the US black and white cookie. Alternative names such as nienich (recorded in 1935) and nenische(1959) suggests a German origin, except neenish was known before the alternatives, and it is suggested that these names were to give a "continental" flavour to the tart. [3]

The earliest known reference to neenish tarts appeared in the Melbourne Argus on 21 May 1924: ’"Culinary" (Brighton) asks for a recipe for Neenish cakes’. [3] The earliest recipe found so far is from the Cairns Post Queensland, Saturday 3rd October, 1925, page 12, 'Some Uncommon Recipes', with an almond pastry, thick sweet custard, optionally stiffened with cornflour, and a water icing, half covered with a strong-coffee water-icing. [4] Another early printed recipe is in Miss Drake's Home Cookery published in 1929, calling for cream filling set with gelatine, and pink and white icing on top. A 1932 recipe in Miranda's Cook Book calls for custard filling and chocolate and white icing [5].

References

  1. ^ [<http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t157.e36500>"neenish tart n." Australian Oxford Dictionary 23 May 2011].
  2. ^ Macquarie Dictionary 23 May 2011.
  3. ^ a b Oxford Word of the Month: Neenish Tarts.
  4. ^ Trove: Uncommon Recipes, Cairns Post, 3rd October 1925.
  5. ^ Miranda's Cook Book "Neinich Tart", , reproduced by Andrew Turpin.

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