# I made Canadian butter tarts yesterday **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 3, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902 "2005-01-03T22:16:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![haardvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@haardvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haardvark)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/81 "2005-01-07T14:56:18Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Feh. Judging what’s the best poutine outside Quebec is like judging what’s the best paella outside Valencia. Fair enough, but don’t kid yourself about what you’re doing. 😉 Well, I am able to state _conclusively_ that the left coast can’t make poutine to save their patchouli-scented lives. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/82 "2005-01-07T15:36:57Z")
> [@haardvark](#): > > Well, I am able to state _conclusively_ that the left coast can’t make poutine to save their patchouli-scented lives. Buuuut, the left border of Alberta (Banff, Jasper) has many, many Quebecois, and therefore damned good poutine. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/83 "2005-01-11T02:28:36Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > I’ve got my Ukranian step-mother’s ‘recipe’ around here for the dough, if you like. She’s a girl from Two Hills (just outside of Vegreville), so that ought to tell you how delicious the results will be. Here’s a resounding “Yes, please!” for that recipe. I love pierogi yet have never attempted to make them. ---
**Author:** ![Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/das_glasperlenspiel/32/2944_2.png) [@Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Das_Glasperlenspiel)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/84 "2005-01-11T02:43:04Z")
Mmmmm - pierogi. With butter, sour cream, onion and bacon bits. 4-vessel CABG waiting to happen. But oh sooooo good. BTW - I have a recipe for butter tarts that is wicked good and is less sweet than the usual - it has a dash of vinegar in it that cuts the sickly sweetness. If anyone wants the recipe, let me know. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/85 "2005-01-11T15:35:45Z")
Das Glasperlenspiel : As requested. 1/4 cup oil (the default in Alberta is Canola, but whatever vegetable oil you have should work) 4 1/2 cups flour 1 cup cold milk 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup boiling water Mix, and let rest for 20 minutes. “Start rollin’ and fillin’ and pinchin’” What I make for filling is a whammy - and of course I don’t have amounts. I make a pot of mashed potatoes, and add in sauteed onions, cooked and crumbled bacon, and a ton of ‘shakey’ cheese. Like parmesan, only day-glo orange. I suppose you could use cheese whiz, or velveeta, or any easy melting ‘cheese’. Some people prefer cottage cheese, but the above is what I grew up with. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/86 "2005-01-11T15:37:11Z")
Oh. We cook them (boil til they float) before freezing them on cookie sheets, then putting them into baggies. When we want to eat them, we boil and then fry, and serve with sauteed onions, crumbled bacon, and sour cream. And BUTTER. ---
**Author:** ![Emony\_Dax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Emony\_Dax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emony_Dax)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/87 "2005-01-11T15:57:46Z")
I made Ginger’s butter tarts for my daughter’s baptism last Sunday. Gotta say they were quite yummy 🙂 I put pecans in some of them and dried cranberries/cherries in the rest. Mine were also a bit runny even after baking for over 20 minutes, but nobody seemed to mind. They disappeared pretty quickly! ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/88 "2005-01-13T05:49:26Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > Make it on a loooong weekend, and we might be able to do it. Only, it’s got to be warm, or my poor 'Merkin husband will perish. Canmore in the winter, he could handle, but I don’t think he’d survive the Ottawa Valley. :dubious: And who is it that cowers inside complaining that the wind chill makes her miserable, she’s used to a "dry cold’ vs who goes out in it every day? Who whined the first winter she was here when we got a 3’ snowfall that she “wasn’t used to so much snow at once” vs who just accepted it as a big but not unprecidented snowfall?? Hmmmm? I’m waiting… ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/89 "2005-01-13T12:39:44Z")
He’s so American. Really, has anyone here lived through 9 winters in Yellowknife, and another 21 in Alberta, then moved to the damp, humid East? It’s a shock that there’s moisture in the air, even moreso that it’s COLD when it’s freezing, and that it snows because it isn’t too cold to snow. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/90 "2005-05-18T13:56:27Z")
The Cult of the Buttertart is spreading. A movie is filiming in Wawa, Ontario, and Alan Rickman, a/k/a Professor Snape from Harry Potter, is there and has discovered the buttertart, as reported in last week’s _MacLean’s_: > [@](#): > > Between takes outside JDD’s Diner in Hawk Junction, a hamlet of 300 people near Wawa, [Rickman] goes in to sign autographs and sample the pies. He was so knocked out by the rhubarb and wild blueberry, he started ordering five pies a day for the crew, urging the baker to set up a franchise. He also raves about **"this incredible thing called a butter tart that’s so good I don’t even want to know what’s in it."** ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/91 "2005-05-18T16:39:57Z")
This proves beyond all doubt that Alan Rickman is a very smart man. As well as cute. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/92 "2005-05-18T22:32:08Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > {meat pie hijack}My Saskatchewan Mennonite mom used to make hamburger pie for supper. As far as I know, it’s not a traditional Mennonite dish. Not sure where she got the idea.{/meat pie hijack} Never heard of it, and I would have if it were a traditional Menno thing. The best traditional Mennonite food bar none is the verenikje. (spellings vary, Plattdietsch doesn’t have any universally accepted orthography) Think perogies filled with cottage cheese, best served with smoked pork sausage and thick cream gravy with onions. My arteries are getting clogged just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/93 "2005-05-19T15:54:14Z")
Another Saskatchewan boy here, and HUNGRY! Perogies (could be plain potato filling or whatever, but topped as above) with sausage and sauerkraut, then nice oozy butter tarts for dessert (with currants in the bottom, or raisins - I suppose cranberries could work). The filling in the tarts shouldn’t be really solid, but thick enough that you can finish one bite before the next one reaches your fingers. Yum! And the sugar bomb for dessert blasts loose anything from the main course that’s trying to stick to your arteries! Yeah! That’s the ticket! ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/94 "2005-05-19T16:03:23Z")
I had a dream about butter tarts after reading this thread yesterday, and I’ve never even eaten one!! I think I’ll have to make them very, very soon. Also, pierogi are the food of the gods. My grandfather used to make them (he was a professional baker when he was younger, plus he’s first-generation-American Polish). He used to make cheddar and onion ones, and also saurkraut (ooooooohhhh, now I need to make those, too). ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/95 "2005-05-19T16:04:41Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > and also saurkraut (ooooooohhhh, now I need to make those, too). That is, saurkraut pierogies, not saurkraut itself (I’m hungry) ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/96 "2005-05-19T17:08:30Z")
Mmmmmm… Butter tarts Nanaimo bars Poutine Perogies Damn, this is almost as good as the MMP food hijacks! ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/97 "2005-05-19T17:33:48Z")
All you Saskatchewanians, and not one mention of saskatoon berry pie? I’m shocked, shocked! Good thing I’m back home - I’ll have to convince the parents to whip up some cabbage rolls and pierogies while I’m here, and maybe some rhubarb crisp or rhubarb coffee cake. And when I head back to southwestern Ontario, I’ll be taking **Ginger** ’s recipe with me to show those Londoners what they’re missing. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902/98 "2005-05-19T17:41:23Z")
> [@Treviathan](#): > > All you Saskatchewanians, and not one mention of saskatoon berry pie? I’m shocked, shocked! Shh! It’s a secret! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-canadian-butter-tarts-yesterday/282902.md?page=4)