Lemon tart

Lemon tart
Tart
Main ingredient(s):
Pastry shell, lemon paste
Recipes at Wikibooks:
Lemon tart
Media at Wikimedia Commons:
Lemon tart

A lemon tart is a dessert dish, a variation of a tart. They have a normal, crimped, versatile pastry shell, while the filling is a basic variation of lemon paste.^{[citation needed]}

These mini-pastries are made in three ways. One way is to have a half-spherical pastry, and lemon filling, while the second way is to have a spherical pastry with lemon filling inside, and the third way, is to have a half spherical pastry, with cream and lemon inside. Lemon tarts may vary, such as they may be sweet or sour.

They are classified as mini-pastries because regular pastries have either a sweet or salty shell, and because regular pastries are usually bigger. Lemon Tarts are usually in the shape of handle-less teacups.

The lemon filling does not have to be baked, but the shell does.^[1] The more intensely the shell is baked, the more crisp it will become.

In the UK, Lemon Tart (also called Tarte au citron) 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.^[2][3][4][5]

See also

• Food portal

References

• Cooking for Company: All the Recipes You Need for Simple, Elegant Entertaining at Home - Nicole Aloni - Google Books

External links

• Media related to Lemon tarts at Wikimedia Commons