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Try this for Christmas for a change! I get requests for cookie recipes for this Christmas and since our very own celebration has just passed, I thought people would like to try the cookies I baked. Pineapple tarts are popular in the East, I am not sure if this cookie is known in the west. If it’s too troublesome to make your own pineapple jam, I am quite sure in Asian supermarts, they sell ready-made jam – now this is not the same as those in the bottles!

Ingredients

120g plain flour
120g self-raising flour
150g butter
1 egg beaten
2 tbsp (or more) cold water
A little salt

Pineapple jam:

2 cups grated pineapple
330g granulated sugar
4 cloves

Method to prepare the pastry:

Sift flour and salt into a mixing bowl. Rub in butter lightly with fingertips till it becomes crumbly. Make a well in the center of the mixture. Pour in the beaten egg and water and bind the ingredients together. Do not knead too much. Sprinkle a little flour over the pastry boards and roll out the pastry thinly. Cut pastry with a fluted cutter. Put a little pineapple jam in the center of each piece.

Method to prepare pineapple jam:

Put grated pineapple and sugar and cloves into a saucepan and bring to the boil over slow fire. Stir constantly until the sugar is dissolved. Boil ntil the jam is thick. Remove from heat and allow to cool.

Bake at 350F or 175C for 25 minutes.