Pineapple tarts

Australian Women’s Weekly Cookbook Sydney 1970, Ellen Sinclair Food Editor

 

Pineapple and Cream Cheese Tarts:

 

50g packaged cream cheese; 2 tspn lemon juice; ½ cup drained crushed pineapple; 1 dozen baked tartlet cases

Beat cream cheese until smooth, beat in lemon juice and pineapple. Spoon mixture into pastry cases, level tops. Spoon slightly cooled glaze over, refrigerate before serving.

 

Glaze:

1 tspn arrowroot; ½ cup pineapple syrup; few drops yellow food colouring

 

Blend arrowroot with pineapple juice in a saucepan, stir until mixture boils and thickens. Colour as desired.

 

Whitefriars College Mothers’ Auxiliary Selected Recipes, Melbourne 1979

Pineapple Filling for Shortbread Tarts

1 tin crushed pineapple; 50g butter; 2 tblspn sugar; 1 tblspn custard powder

Melt butter, add custard powder and sugar, then pineapple. Just bring to boil.

 

And here's something to check out - the latest fashion worn by world leaders - Piña !

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/17/world-leaders-to-don-pineapple-shirts-for-philippines-apec-summit

Exquisite Piña from the Phillipines

Pineapple fiber or Piña is a strong white or creamy cobweb-like fiber drawn from tall leaves of an indigenous pineapple plant. The fiber is hand stripped from the leaves in lengths of about 18 inches to 3 feet, sun-bleached, hand knotted and spun.

 

It is commonly used in the Philippines where it is sometimes combined with silk or polyester to create a textile fabric.

 

Thanks very much to Karen Angel N  and Quing Obillos for the use of their lovely detailed photographs of Piña embroidery.

Mommysaurus75 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mommysaurus75/5551708114/sizes/z/in/photostream/

Quing Obillos      

http://www.flickr.com/photos/quingobillos/4128406268/

 

And thank you to Karen Ilagan for this beautiful wedding dress photograph.  

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenilagan/2223115934/

Two fascinating youtubes were made almost 100 years apart - 1918 and 2012 - on the production of Piña. You will make some interesting observations about factory production in the 1918 film "Luzon Lingerie" . . .

 

 

The youtube made in 2012 clearly shows the process but is too long to include on the blog: If you would like to watch it here's the address:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRvWiiGoOzI
Anne