Fruit Slice (Fly Cemetery)
Fruit Slice - also known as "Fly Cemetery" - is a deliciously rich pastry traybake, filled with a generous amount of spiced currants. Can you guess where it gets it's somewhat unappetising pet-name?
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Servings: 8
INGREDIENTS
For the Pastry
- 300 g Plain Flour
- 150 g Block Margarine or Butter (cold; cubed)
- 50 g Icing Sugar
- 1 Free-range Egg (at room temperature; see Egg Size note below)
- 2-3 tsp Cold Water
For the Filling
- 200 g Currants
- 75 g Caster Sugar
- 50 g Block Margarine or Butter (at room temperature)
- 1 tsp Mixed Spice
INSTRUCTIONS
- Pre-heat your oven to 180°c (or 160°c for a fan assisted oven or Gas Mark 4) and grease a 20cm by 28cm baking tray with a little butter. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, using your fingers, rub the flour and butter together until it resembles breadcrumbs. Stir through the sugar before adding the egg. Mix until combined, adding a teaspoon of cold water as required and knead into a soft pastry dough.
- Wrap the dough in cling film and place in the fridge to cool and firm up, whilst preparing the filling.
- In a bowl mix the currants, sugar, butter and mixed spice until combined.
- Remove the pastry from the fridge and roll to 0.5cm thickness and cut into two large rectangles, about the size of your tray. Place on pastry rectangle onto your pre-greased tray.
- Spoon the currant mixture evenly onto the pastry on the baking tray, leaving a small gap around the edges. Wet the edges with a little water. Place the other sheet of pastry on top of the currants and gently press the edges together with your fingers, before finishing with a fork.
- Brush the top pastry with a little milk or beaten egg, before pricking a few holes on the top of the pastry
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until a light golden brown colour.
- Remove from the oven and sprinkle a little sugar on top to finish. Once completely cool, cut into squares or slices of your desired size.
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
All my recipes are developed using a digital scale and the metric system (grams and millilitres). Cup measurements are available as a conversion but these, unfortunately, won't always be as accurate. For best results, I always recommend baking with a digital scale.
RECIPE NOTES:
Egg Size:
When it comes to eggs, I always buy mixed-weight free-range eggs. Generally speaking, egg size doesn’t make a huge difference in most baking, unless you are using sizes that lean towards the extremes. If you’re unsure which eggs to use, I recommend medium eggs in the UK, which are roughly equivalent to large eggs in the US. That’s what this recipe has been tested with.- You can use Ready Roll Short Crust Pastry if you prefer or are in a hurry.
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