Recipes for the butter tart vary according to the families baking them. Traditionally, the English Canadian tart consists of butter, sugar, and eggs in a pastry shell, similar to the French-Canadian sugar pie, or the base of the U. More exotic flavours are also produced butter roll some bakers.
Examples such as maple, bacon, pumpkin, chili, and salted caramel cardamom flavours have been made for competitions. Butter tarts were common in pioneer Canadian cooking, and they remain a characteristic pastry of Canada, considered a recipe of genuinely Canadian origin. It is primarily eaten in and associated with the English-speaking provinces of Canada. Treacle tart: which is an English pastry made with golden syrup or treacle.
The earliest published Canadian recipe is from Barrie, Ontario, dating back to 1900 and can be found in The Women’s Auxiliary of the Royal Victoria Hospital Cookbook, to which a Mrs. Similar tarts are made in Scotland, where they are often referred to as Ecclefechan butter tarts from the town of Ecclefechan. Canadian recipe only by the addition of ground almonds. Butter tarts are an integral part of Central Canadian cuisine and are objects of cultural pride of many communities across Ontario and indeed Canada.