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Lemon tart
Recipe by:
Melissa
This lemon tart is a lovely conclusion to an elegant dinner! I garnish slices with cream, a strawberry fan and a sprig of mint.
Ready in 50 mins
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Ingredients
Serves: 12
- For the pastry:
- 75g (3 oz) butter
- 4 tablespoons icing sugar
- 125g (4¼ oz) plain flour
- For the lemon filling:
- 3 eggs
- 200g (7 oz) caster sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 4 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons plain flour
- 2 tablespoons icing sugar for dusting
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Preparation method
Prep: 15 mins | Cook: 35 mins1.
Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4.
2.
Process butter, 4 tablespoons icing sugar and 125g flour in food processor 10 seconds, or blend with pastry blender. Pat dough evenly into 23cm tart tin.
3.
Bake 12 to 15 minutes, until golden.
4.
Meanwhile, combine eggs, caster sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice and 3 tablespoons flour and mix until smooth; pour mixture over hot pastry case.
5.
Bake 15 to 20 minutes more, until firm. Let cool completely in tin. Dust with icing sugar and cut into 12 slices.
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Last updated:
05 May 2013
Reviews & comments
Easy
Such a very easy and tasty recipe. Wish I had followed the video first as I overcooked in but at least I know for next time. But I can tell it is going to be excellent 2nd time round. Thank you for sharing Also added a lid of vanilla extract to give it a little bit more taste. I also put approximately 8 tablespoons of lemon as I love my sweet to be very lemony but it was still not overly citrusy.
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05 May 2013
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Iv not tried this recipe yet, but you can be sure that I will do so, but as for the person who started their comment with. "This recipe is awful" Is quite frankly downright rude, and I suspect that this person is so negative about the recipe because they didn't follow the recipe as it was written. And after all, there was a video to accompany the recipe as well so how could anyone fail with such a simple recipe.
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10 Mar 2013
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After making this for the first time I am getting requests from friends and neighbours - I think that says it all. For speed I tend to buy ready made pastry base from supermarket.
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08 Jan 2013
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too sweet,not enough lemon
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22 Oct 2012
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Moderately easy
This recipe is awful. I was very excited to make one of these, as it's not normally my sort of thing to make. Because of this, I had no idea about what should be done. I followed the instructions, word for word, and my first problem was the pastry. I did what it said, but it turned out to be very powdery and dry. In the end I had to add water, and more butter. My second problem was the baking. I put it in the oven, and it looked like gloop 20 minutes late. I told my mother, and she told me that I needed to "Blind Bake" it, which wasn't something I was told to do in the recipe. I then was told that Gas Mark 4 was rather low for pastry, and it should be on at least number 5. Now, I've completely scrapped the pastry, as it is completely wrecked. I am now baking the Lemon solution, as I do not want to waste anything. Overall, a total disappointment.
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31 Aug 2012
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Easy
Very tasty, I made too much pastry mixture (my own fault) so that overpowered the lemon filling, but it was delicious still
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10 Jul 2012
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I had a shop bought pastry case so just mixed the filling and baked as directed.
An absolute perfect bake - Thanks for sharing this.
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29 Jun 2012
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The flavour was lovely but in retrospect I should have 1) blended the filling ingredients (I mixed them and put in the fridge for a few hours until I was ready to cook and it was a bit gloopy) 2) not used a deep pie dish. I like thick slices but it didn't cook very well so I had to keep it in for another 10 minutes.
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24 Apr 2012
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Easy
Very hard crust, but beautiful flavour!
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13 Apr 2012
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I made this yesterday and it turned out fantastic. It's quick easy and tastes delicious. I give it a
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20 Dec 2011
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