I love Delia Smith. not only is she the guiding light behind the re-surrgent pride of East anglia, Norwich City, she has just published a new cookery book called "How to cheat at cooking"
In it she has got a receipe for my favourite Portuguese goodie, the wonderful custard tart, known, I believe as Pastel Nata?????

There goes what is left of my waistline!!!

I just had 2 yesterday Bruce. I know what you mean about the waistline!

heaven in a pastry case, lucky you Canada, have one for me please..

I don't think you can cheat and make pasteis de nata. It just won't be the same. I have tried loads of different recipes and although they were sort of nice they definitely weren't PdN.
And B1D (the best cook in the whole world) doesn't ever attempt to make them either. You need the heat of an industrial oven, don't you B1D???

I have resigned myself to pining for them and only eating them when i am in PT (or London - that great little cafe on Villiers st and the shop in Camden and the bakery Lisboa in ladbroke grove etc etc etc)
I think most of the intense PdN experience is down to environmental forces... the sun, the smell & taste of decent coffee, the sound of people speaking portuguese, not having to queue up to get your bleeding coffee

The price

Another source in the UK....the cafe on the top floor of the Bentall Centre in Kingston upon Thames

If you want to try doing your own, try this:

http://www.dianasdesserts.com/index.cfm ... Recipe.cfm

and what about the fresh, still warm chicken pies in Cafe Rumar in Portimãos Rua do Comercio................

What is cheating about that?

A supply of Pastel de Nata can be found at the Brazilian cafe, Cafe Pao (I haven't mastered accents etc on the keyboard) in Reading.

I'll say someone's cheating . . . . this should be posted on Chit Chat, not General.

You sarky little Lincoln Imp

mmmmmmmmmmmmm missing them already, however, for those who live near a proper china town, go to the bakery there and you can get them there theyre called Daan tats or something like that - but they are the real article. honest!