maids of honour tart

Etymology
Said to date back to when he witnessed some of the Queen’s maids of honour eating some cakes and demanded to taste one. He found them delicious and named them after the maids. However, there is another theory that they were named after, a maid of honour at the time, who made the cakes for Henry VIII.

Noun

 * 1) A traditional English baked tart consisting of a puff pastry shell filled with curds, sometimes with jam or almonds and nutmeg.