Gypsy tart

Description

Gypsy tart is a classic Kentish dessert consisting of a shortcrust pastry filled with whipped evaporated milk and sugar. The tart is then baked and topped with powdered sugar. It can be served either warm or cold. Many believe that the dish was invented by a woman who wanted to feed some malnourished-looking gypsy children with anything she had in her home, so she baked them this tart. Regardless of the inventor, Gypsy tart became so popular that it was a staple of Kentish school menus from the 1960s to the 1980s.