{"id":219,"date":"2021-10-09T16:08:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T05:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/?p=219"},"modified":"2021-10-10T13:33:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T02:33:59","slug":"lemon-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/09\/lemon-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Square"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lemon square with a custard-ish topping<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>A bit too sickly sweet really<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t try this without a food processor<br>For 16-20 pieces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Ingredients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3>Base<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>2 cups of flour (a little bit less)<\/li><li>1\/2 cup of icing sugar<\/li><li>170g cold butter<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Topping<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>1 1\/2 cups sugar<\/li><li>rind of 1\/2 a lemon<\/li><li>3 large eggs<\/li><li>1\/4 cup lemon juice (2 lemons)<\/li><li>1\/4 cup self-raising flour<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>Method<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Turn oven to 160 degrees celcius<\/li><li>Press a large piece of baking paper into a 23cm baking pan, folding the paper so that it totally covers the base of the pan and the sides (fold rather than cut so that the filling cannot run under the paper<\/li><li>Measure the flour icing sugar and cold cubed butter into a food processor fitted with its chopping blade. Blend until the butter is chopped finely through the ingredients.<\/li><li>Tip the mixture into the tin lined with baking paper and press down smoothly with the back of a large spoon or a fish slice\/spatula<\/li><li>Bake for 15-20 minutes until firm and straw-coloured. While the base is cooking, prepare the topping.<\/li><li>Put the sugar in the (unwashed) food processor bowl with the lemon rind. Blend until the lemon rind is very finely chopped through the sugar.<\/li><li>Turn oven down to 150 degrees.<\/li><li>Add the eggs, lemon juice, flour. Blend until smooth.<\/li><li>Pour onto the partly cooked base. Bake for a further 30 minutes until top is lightly browned and centre does not wobble if jiggled.<\/li><li>Let it cool completely.<\/li><li>Cut into squares. Keeps for 3-4 days.<\/li><li>Optionally sift icing sugar over the squares just before serving.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lemon square with a custard-ish topping A bit too sickly sweet really! Don&#8217;t try this without a food processorFor 16-20 pieces Ingredients Base 2 cups of flour (a little bit less) 1\/2 cup of icing sugar 170g cold butter Topping 1 1\/2 cups sugar rind of 1\/2 a lemon 3 large eggs 1\/4 cup lemon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/09\/lemon-square\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lemon Square<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucesheb.familyds.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}