Baked an almond tart today, and the pastry was lightly tanned and crisp, no soggy bottom. Tasted delicious.
		
		
	 
I've been asked for a recipe, here are what I weighed (using an electronic scale, tare it to weigh the ingredients into the bowl.)
Note: Pastry case is not baked blind prior to adding the filling.
150g Plain flour
50g margarine (at least 70% fat)
22g Trex (vegetable shortening)
2g salt
Pastry made by rub-in method or cut fat into flour before rubbing in to find crumb stage, then add enough cold water teaspoon by teaspoon mixing until it clumps into larger lumps but not sticky, gather into a dough ball, you can chill this before rollinh and lining an 8 inch pie tin. 
WET
100g sugar
130g margarine : Cream these two together and break
1 large egg (approx 75g in shell) into the mix and beat well. Add
2 teaspoons Almond Essence and mix thoroughly in.
DRY
Stir
30g Self Raising Flour well into
150g ground almonds, so that the flour is well distributed.
Put half the dry mix into the wet mix and combine evenly. Repeat with the rest of the wet mix.
In a small bowl put in two heaped tablespoons of smooth strawberry (or any which has no fruit lumps in) jam (not preserve) and heat in the microwave for about 20-30 seconds. Then spread over the pastry lined pie tin. Put the ground almond mixture over the jam evenly and top with sliced blanched almonds.
Bake in 200'C oven for 15 minutes to help set the pastry, turn down the oven to 160, bake for another 40-45 minutes. If you put a plate over the tart and invert it, you can check on how well cooked the pastry base is. If it's underdone, return the tart into the tin, bake for a little longer.