Jam tart

[3] They comprise small shortcrust pastry bases, filled with a fruit jam, such as strawberry, raspberry, apricot or lemon curd which are then baked.

[5] Jam tarts are considered a "quintessential" British food,[4] although possibly they are known to have been consumed in eighth-century Xinjiang, China, and used as a burial offering to the gods.

Recipes from cooks such as Hannah Glasse popularised baking with jam,[11] as until then sugar was most commonly known as "a medicine, a spice, or a plaything of the powerful".

Larger than 20th century tarts, it was divided into 13 equal slices, representing Jesus and his disciples, with each section filled with a different variety of jam.

According to Barry, Cleall "carried the jam tart over to Richard Everett's character, and said threateningly, 'Did you say something, you pasty-faced pillock?'"

[22] [23] In 2015, the Welsh town of Llandudno—where Alice Liddell, Carroll's inspiration for Alice——launched an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the longest line—1500,[24] 2000,[25] or 2045[26]—of jam tarts, which must also then be consumed.

[25] W. H. Auden wrote a poem in 1938 titled "I'm a Jam Tart", as a satire on the cabaret songs of Cole Porter.

",[29][note 3] and in Australian English, for example, "The Pope's a Jew if that jam tart doesn't root like a rattlesnake" as reported in Private Eye in 1969.

[5] Another of jam tart's original slang meanings was "mart", as in a market place; this was often applied to the London Stock Exchange.