long-weekend dessert contribution. I hunted through my extensive listing of bookmarked recipes for something a niggling special, dissimilar from my green chocolate-based cakes in addition to cookies, that could nevertheless live on baked ahead of fourth dimension in addition to transported without likewise much fuss. Ellie (aka cakestorm.
I baked this inwards a much smaller tin than it was intended for. Consequently, the base of operations was rather thick in addition to the lemon topping took far longer to laid than the recipe directed. Worse, the base of operations was overcooked in addition to rather tough. The icing carbohydrate in addition to pistachios that Jeffery suggests equally a garnish seemed a fight fussy for this weekend away, thence instead I simply packed a box of frozen mixed berries equally a garnish. The overall final result was pretty lip-puckering! Nothing that a drinking glass of milk couldn't fix, mind.
For all that, the lemon topping was genuinely very, real good; tardily to set together (just whisking, no custard-style heating), the correct residual of sweetness in addition to sour for my taste, in addition to alongside a delectable viscid golden crust where the piece met the pan. It fifty-fifty won the approving of lemon-dessert-obsessive Jo-Lyn.
A lovely lemon slice
Base:
1 1/2 cups patently flour
1/2 loving cup icing sugar
grated rind of ane lemon
180g cold, unsalted butter
2 tablespoons iced water
Lemon topping:
6 eggs
3 cups castor sugar
grated rind of iii lemons
1 loving cup lemon juice
1/2 loving cup patently flour
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C; lightly butter a baking dish in addition to business it alongside paper.
The base of operations is similar a shortcrust pastry. Put the flour, icing carbohydrate in addition to lemon rind inwards a nutrient processor in addition to pulse to mix evenly. Cut the butter into cubes in addition to add together it to the mix, pulsing until the mixture has the texture of breadcrumbs. Trickle inwards simply a niggling water, in addition to procedure the pastry until it simply forms into a dough ball. Press the pastry dough into the baking dish - I used the dorsum of a spoon to shine it out. Bake the base of operations for well-nigh eighteen minutes, or until it starts to color (this took me a niggling longer since my base of operations was thick).
Turn the oven downwards to 150 degrees C, in addition to teach going alongside the topping. Whisk together the eggs in addition to carbohydrate inwards a large bowl, thence the lemon juice in addition to rind, nevertheless whisking. Sift inwards the flour in addition to whisk again. When the base of operations is relatively cool, pour over the filling in addition to supply the piece to the oven, this fourth dimension for 35-40 minutes (more similar 50 minutes for me) until the topping is set.
Store it inwards the fridge - you lot tin cutting it most neatly spell it's cold, though I remember it tastes most pleasant at room temperature.
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