Lemon Squares
2015-02-08- Cuisine: American
This recipe serves
Ingredients
- Crust Pie crust, standard-type, frozen, ready-to-bake, baked
- 1 3/4 cups fine soda cracker crumbs
- 3/4 cup flour Wheat flour, white, all-purpose, enriched, unbleached
- 1 tsp baking powder Leavening agents, baking powder, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate
- ½ cup white sugar Sugars, granulated
- 3/4 cup butter Butter, without salt
- 1 tbsp milk Milk, reduced fat, fluid, 2% milkfat, with added vitamin A
- ½ cup desiccated coconut Nuts, coconut meat, dried (desiccated), sweetened, flaked, packaged
- Filling Pie fillings, canned, cherry
- 4 tbsp cornstarch Cornstarch
- 1 cup white sugar Sugars, granulated
- 1 large lemon, juiced and finely zested, (taste to see if you need more )
- 2 large egg yolks Egg, yolk, raw, fresh
- 1 cup boiling water Water, municipal
- 2 tbsp butter Butter, without salt
- dash salt
Method
Step 1
Rub together butter sugar, flour & baking powder. Add cracker crumbs, milk and coconut. Mix well and cover the bottom of 9x9 pan with 1/2 of the crumbs. Make filling and then pour over crumb base and level. Top with remaining crumbs. Bake 350F for 30 minutes. Filling: Mix dry ingredients together, add boiling water, stirring constantly until no taste of starch remains. ( about 10 minutes.) Mix the egg yolks and add a little of the hot mixture and return to heat for 2-3 minutes longer. Remove from heat, add butter juice zest as the mixture cools.
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