Rich Lemon Tart

Name: Rich Lemon Tart
Yield: Serves 6–8
Ingredients: 4 oz/112 g butter, chilled; 5 oz/140 g plain flour; 1 oz/28 g icing sugar; ½ tsp vanilla essence or a few drops extract; 5 large eggs, well beaten together; ½ tsp vanilla essence or a few drops extract; 5 oz/140 g butter; 8 oz/225 g caster sugar; Grated rind and juice of 3 lemons

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

This is a most satisfying tart to end a lunch or dinner. The lemon is sufficiently sharp in flavour – I think that a bland lemony pud is a disappointment. This one isn’t!

Ingredients

For the pastry

4 oz/112 g butter, chilled
5 oz/140

Dessert
Lunch
Dinner
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

To make the pastry, cut the butter into bits in a food processor and add the flour, icing sugar and vanilla. Whiz for a few seconds, until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Or grate the butter into the sieved flour, rub in with the fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs, then stir in the icing sugar and vanilla essence. Knead lightly together, then press the mixture round the base