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      Title: CHERRY TARTS
 Categories: Pies, Desserts
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
      1    No. 2 can (2 1/2 cups) tart
           -red
           Pitted cherries
    1/2 c  Sugar
      2 tb Cornstarch
      3    Or 4 drops almond extract
      6    Drops red food coloring
      4    Baked pastry shells
 
  Drain cherries; add water to cherry liquid to make 1 cup. Combine
  sugar and cornstarch; slowly stir in liquid. Cook, stirring
  constantly, till thick. Add almond extract and food coloring. Cool to
  lukewarm. Spoon cherries into tarts and pour the cornstarch mixture
  over, chill. Trim tops with baked pastry star cutouts.
  
  Add vanilla. Stir in confectioners' sugar till frosting is of
  consistency to pour.
  
  These tart shells are fixed in a twinkling! Roll pastry 1/8 inch. Cut
  in rounds and fit over little star molds, trim edges and prick as
  shown. Place on cooky sheet and bake in very hot oven (450ø) 10
  minutes or till golden brown. Cool shells; spoon in cherry Filling.
 
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