Lemon Slices
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 cup flour
- ½ cup butter
- ¼ cup sugar
Filling
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup sugar
- 3½ tbsp lemon juice (Fresh lemon is best, but bottled lemon juice is fine too.)
- dash salt
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp flour
- powdered sugar (For sprinkling on top.)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 °F
- Add flour and sugar to a medium mixing bowl and stir to blend.
- Cut up cold butter into slices and add to mixing bowl. Use a pastry cutter to blend in the butter. (You can also do this in a food processor, but be careful to not over blend.
- Pour mixture into a 9x13 pan and firmly pat to cover the bottom of the pan.
- Bake the crust for 20 minutes. Crust should be just brown.
- While crust is baking, mix the filling.
- Beat eggs with a small electric hand mixer. (You can use the same bowl you mixed the crust in!)
- Add sugar, lemon juice, slat, baking powder, and flour.
- When crust is done, remove from the over and pour the filling over the top. It will be a thin coat. Be sure and spread it over the entire surface of the crust.
- Return to the oven and bake another 20 minutes. The edges should be browned.
- Cool completely and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
- Slice and serve. Use a small metal spatula to easily remove the slices from the pan.