Egg tarts - the recipe

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Sorry to have taken so long to provide the recipe but here it is!

Egg Tarts

Ready made puff pastry - or you can make one following this recipe here

Ingredient A:
225g sugar
250ml water

Ingredient B:
5 eggs plus 2 egg yolks
100ml of fresh milk or single cream
salt
1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Method:
1. First make the syrup by combining the water and sugar. Boil untul all the sugar cool dissolved and leave it to cool.
2. Heat up the oven to 180 ºC or gas mark 4.
3. Beat the eggs and egg yolks lightly.
4. Warm up the milk/cream in a bain marie and add the salt and vanilla and slowly mix the milk into the egg mixture. Bring the mixture back into the bain marie and add in the syrup and whisk till it thickens.
5. Cut the pastry to size and place in muffin tins. Brush with a bit of milk and bake blind for 10 minutes.
6. Pour the custard into the pastry shell and bake for another 15 minutes
7. Cover the top of the muffin tin with a sheet of aluminium foil and bake a further 5-10 minutes.