Lemon tart

A lemon tart (French: tarte au citron) is a dessert dish, a variety of tart. It has a pastry shell with a lemon flavored filling.

Lemon tart
TypeTart
Place of originFrance
Main ingredientsPastry shell, lemon paste

In the UK, lemon tart consists of a pastry case (often made in a fluted tart tin) containing a baked lemon custard (usually composed of eggs, sugar, lemon juice and cream). Usually recipes include blind-baking before adding the custard. Sometimes the tart is dusted with icing sugar prior to serving.[1][2][3][4]

Alternatively, the lemon filling can be cooked in a saucepan and then added to the baked pastry case.[5]

A dessert very similar to the lemon tart is the lemon pie, usually served for dessert, made with a crust usually made of shortcrust pastry and lemon custard filling. The lemon pie is prepared with a bottom pie crust. This pie is different from the lemon meringue pie, which has meringue on top, so where no upper crust is used, as in a cherry pie.

See also

References
  1. "Lemon Tart". Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  2. "BBC - Food - Recipes : Tarte au citron". Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  3. "Thick Lemon Tart". Delia Online. November 9, 2015.
  4. "Mary Berry". Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  5. Waitrose Limited. "Heston's Lemon tart". Retrieved 4 January 2015.
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