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Lemon tart

Lemon tart

Pastry dessert dish with lemon flavored filling


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.

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In the United Kingdom, 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]

Similar desserts

A dessert very similar to the lemon tart is the Shaker 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.

Distinct from the Shaker lemon pie is the lemon meringue pie, the latter which has no upper crust but meringue on top instead.

See also


References

  1. "Lemon Tart". Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  2. "Thick Lemon Tart". Delia Online. November 9, 2015.
  3. "Mary Berry". Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  4. Waitrose Limited. "Heston's Lemon tart". Archived from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2015.

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