Lemon Squares

This could also be made easily into lemon tarts.

9 x 12 pan
Preheat oven to 300ºF

Ingredients

sweet pastry

lemon butter (aka lemon curd, lemon cheese)

pastry

Cream butter and sugar together in a bowl. Add salt. Add flour and blend thoroughly (use your hands).
Pack into a 9 x 12 pyrex baking dish. (½ recipe: 8 x 8) Press down evenly and smooth top with the back of a spoon. Bake at 300ºF for 30 minutes or until barely tinged with gold. Leave on counter to cool.

lemon butter

Over a double boiler, cook eggs by beating constantly with whisk until they are thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. (This is essential. It takes away that unpleasant proteiny, eggy taste.)
Add the other ingredients and continue to stir with spatula over double boiler until it is thick.
When the lemon butter is the desired thickness, take off the heat and leave to cool.

finishing squares

When both the crust and the lemon butter are at room temperature, spread lemon butter evenly over pastry. Chill well before cutting into squares.

Squares:
Beekeepers . more squares and pastry recipes

9 x 12 pan
Preheat oven to 275ºF

In a small bowl, stir together honey, vanilla and peanut butter. In a large bowl, combine all other ingredients. Add the dry and wet ingredients to each other and blend thoroughly (use your hands).
Pack into a lightly greased 9 x 12 non stick pan. (½ recipe: 8 x 8) Press down evenly and smooth top with the back of a spoon. Place pan on a cookie sheet and bake at 275ºF for 30 minutes or until barely tinged with gold.
Chill several hours before cutting into squares.

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Squares:
beekeepers . brownies . lemon squares

Pastry & Fillings:
Apple Pie . Apple Tarts . Apricot . Berry . Cherry . Lemon . Mincemeat - Mom's . Mincemeat - vegetarian . Pecan . Plum . Pumpkin . Strudel (Cherry) . Strudel (Peach) . Beef & Mushroom . Prune Onion Blue Cheese Tart . Sausage Rolls . Spinach . Tourtiere . Pastry