Recipe Mom's Butter Tarts (Pie)

Required Ingredients:

• 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie
• 2/3 cup butter
• 1 cup golden syrup
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 1/2 cups raisins
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs

Preparing/Cooking:

• Line three inch tart tins with pastry.
• Chill while making filling.
• Melt butter.
• Stir in golden syrup, brown sugar, raisins, nutmeg, and salt; mix thoroughly.
• Let mixture cool.
• Beat the eggs just sufficiently to combine yolks and whites, and then mix into the butter syrup.
• Pour filling into pastry lined tart tins.
• Set tins on a cookie sheet.
• Bake on lowest rack in very hot preheated oven, 450 degrees F (230 degrees C), for 15 to 20 minutes.
• When baked, loosen edges with pointed knife.
• Allow tarts to stand for at least 10 minutes before removing from tins.

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