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Pine Tart

Name: Pine Tart
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Guyana
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 150g Butter; 130g Sugar; A pinch Salt; 4 tbsp Water; 1/2 Pineapple; A pinch Cinnamon powder; A pinch Nutmeg; 1 Egg

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Pineapple jam wrapped in triangular pastry and baked — a Guyanese bakery staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pine tarts (pineapple tarts) are triangular pastries found in every Guyanese bakery. Cooked-down pineapple jam is placed on a round of pastry, folded up from three sides into a triangle, and baked. The jam peeking out of the center is their hallmark, and they're loved as a snack or after-school treat.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a bakery display case in Georgetown, golden triangular pastries line up with pineapple jam peeking from the center.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 300g
Butter 150g
Sugar 130g
Salt A pinch
Water 4 tbsp
Pineapple 1/2
Cinnamon powder A pinch
Nutmeg A pinch
Egg 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely chop the pineapple and simmer 30 minutes with 100g sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg until the liquid is gone; let cool.
Bring together the flour, cold butter, 30g sugar, salt, and ice water into a dough and chill 30 minutes.
Roll out the dough and cut into 10cm rounds.
Place jam in the center, fold up the edges on three sides into a triangle, leaving the center slightly open.
Brush with beaten egg and bake at 190°C for 25 minutes.

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