Maids of Honor
Serves: 16
 
Ingredients
  • ½ pound rich shortcrust pastry, cold
  • 4 ounces cottage cheese
  • 3 ounces butter, softened
  • 2 large eggs, beaten
  • 5 tablespoons brandy
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 3 ounces cold baked potato
  • ¼ cup ground almonds
  • ½ teaspoon grated nutmeg
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon zest (2 lemons)
  • 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350°.
  2. Grease 16 patty tins.
  3. On a lightly floured board, roll out pastry to a ⅛-inch thickness. Using a 3-inch cookie cutter, cut 16 rounds from pastry. Line the tins with the pastry rounds.
  4. In a mixing bowl, combine cottage cheese and butter. Beat well with a mixer at medium speed. Add eggs, brandy, and sugar. Beat once again.
  5. In another mixing bowl, combine potato, almonds, nutmeg, and lemon zest and juice. Beat well. Gradually add cottage cheese mixture, beating thoroughly. Divide the filling among the prepared patty tins.
  6. Bake until filling is set, 25 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven, and let cool in the tins for 10 minutes before carefully lifting onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
Recipe by TeaTime Magazine at https://teatimemagazine.com/the-original-maids-of-honour/