Easy Lemon Tart Recipe - A Classic Lemon Tart - Only 40p Per Slice

This easy lemon tart recipe is truly delicious. A classic lemon tart for only 40p per slice. A beautiful baked lemon dessert. Here are all of the ingredients you’ll need and the method.

For the pastry.

150g / 5.3oz Plain Flour 0.08

40g / 1.4oz Icing Sugar 0.10

Pinch of salt 0.00

100g / 3.5oz Butter 0.76

1 Egg 0.14

For the Filling.

6 Eggs 0.84

3 Lemons 0.30

150g / 5.3oz Caster Sugar 0.24

115g / 4oz Soft Butter 0.80

Total Cost. 3.26

8 slices at 0.40

Add the flour, icing sugar, and salt into a bowl. Add the butter and rub into the flour. Then add the egg and bring the dough together.

Shape into a round and place in the oven for 1 hour.

Roll the pastry out and line a 9 inch tart tin with it. Prong the bottom with a fork, line with greaseproof paper and fill with baking beans.

Bake in the oven at 175c / 347f / gas mark 3.5 for about 20 mins. Remove from the oven and remove the greaseproof paper and return to the oven for a further 10 mins.

Put 4 eggs and 2 yolks into a bowl and beat them.

In a pan put the butter and melt it then add the sugar and whisk together.

Add the zest of two lemons and the juice of all 3 and combine over the heat.

Take the better mix and pour it into the eggs a little at a time. Put it back into the pan over a low heat and heat to thicken, stirring continually.

When the mixture is bubbling slightly strain into a jug.

Pour the mixture into the pastry case and bake for 8 -10 mins at 170c.

Then allow it to cool