Lemon Tart

Lemon Tart

A lemon tart is a dessert dish, a variety of tart. It has a pastry shell with a lemon flavored filling.

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.

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

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.

Main Ingrediant

• Sweet short pastry shell
• Lemon cream

Short Pastry

Short pastry is one of European origin variety. Short pastry doughs will have a short texture, Meaning that when they are mixed the dough can be pulled apart easily rather than stretched untill it broke.

Short pastry can be savoury or sweet.

Savoury short pastry will contain fat up to 50% of the flour weight, salt and water. some enriched doughs can contain eggs that replace water content.

Sweet short pastry can be made from 2 separate formulas:

• 2:1:1 - 2 Flour: 1Sugar: 1Fat
• 3:2:1 - 3 Flour: 2Sugar: 1Fat

Both of these formulas will use eggs or water as a binding agent in the closing stages of mixing.

How to make lemon tart

Equibment you'll need:

• Tart Shell
• bowl
• weighting scale 
• sauce pan
• baking tray
• mixing machine

Sweet Short Pastry Recipe:

• cold butter      250 gr
• Sugar              125 gr
• Eggs                1 pcs
• Flour               500 gr 

Method:

1. Pre-heated oven at 180c
2. mix flour, sugar and butter till incorporate crumb and add eggs. knead till they form a ball.
3. brush your tart shell with butter or spray cooking oil.
4. When ready to make pie, roll dough out as you would any crust. Do not let sit out, or handle excessively allowing to soften. Easiest to work with if firm.
5. bake at 180c for 14-16minutes.

Lemon Cream Recipe

• Lemon Juice      100gr
• Sugar                 130gr
• Eggs                   2pcs
• Eggs yolk           1pcs
• Butter                 180gr
• Gelatin               1sheet (optional)

Method:

1. Soak gelatin in a bowl of icy cold water.
2. In a sauce pan warm lemon juice.
3. In a bowl beat eggs, sugar and whisk them till they well combined.
4. pour the warm lemon juice to the eggs mixture. keep stirring the mixture to prevent the eggs to be cooked when pouring the lemon juice. 
5. pour the mixture back to the sauce pan on low heat and keep stiring.
6. Bring to a rolling boil, stirring constantly until thickened. Mixture will resemble pudding. 
7. Turn of the heat and add butter and gelatin(optional).

Pour your lemon cream to the baked tart shell and ready to serve. you can either serve lemon tart with meringue on top, Fresh whipped cream, fresh fruit or berry, any ice cream of your like. Maybe just serve them alone...