Jam Tarts

These are a perenial tea time treat and so easy to make. They are ideal to make with left over pieces of most types of pastry.

Ingredients
1 quantity of shortcrust pastry, sweet shortcrust pastry, rich shortcrust pastry
few tablespoons jam

Method
1 Sprinkle a work surface and rolling pin with a little plain flour.
2 Place the ball of pastry dough onto the flour.
3 Lightly roll the pastry out making sure to turn it 90 degrees after each roll of the rolling pin.
4 Dip a 3" fluted cutter into flour, shake off the excess.
5 Stamp out as many rounds as you wish.
6 Line a patty tin with the pastry rounds.
7 Prick the bases with a fork.
8 Bake in the oven at 200 degrees centigrade/gas mark 6 for about 8 to 12 minutes.
9 Place the tins directly onto a wire cooling rack for a couple of minutes.
10 Transfer the tart cases directly onto the wire cooling rack.
11 Place a few spoons of jam into a saucepan.
12 Place over a medium heat.
13 Allow the jam to just melt.
14 Spoon the jam carefully into the pastry cases.
15 Allow the jam tarts to cool before eating.

Serve either on their own, or with ice cream, freshly whipped cream, creme fraiche or custard.