When life gives you lemons...

[ebonlock]

It took me about 5 minutes to pick these this afternoon, it didn't even put a dent in my heavily-laden tree

...beg your friends list for lemon-based recipes. Seriously, people, I'm up to my neck in the little yellow bastards and they just keep coming. So I'm asking you, my friends, for your favorite/family recipes or recipe ideas to use as many of these things as possible. It's that or give them to all my local friends for Xmas and nobody wants it to come to that, do they?

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recipe: Lemon Bars

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This recipe is from "RSVP: An Invitation to Maine Cooking," a cookbook I picked up at Bar Harbor a decade or so ago, and I'm so glad I did because its "Lemon Lovenotes" recipe is so similar to the olde family recipe that was misplaced by someone years ago. The end result is basically the same.

Lemon Bars

1 C butter
2 C flour
1/2 C powdered sugar

Mix and press into 9x13 pan. Bake at 325 for 15 minutes. (Should be just a lovely light golden color around the edges.)

Filling
4 eggs
2 C sugar
4 tbl flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 C lemon juice (or more ...)
1 tsp grated lemon rind or 1 tsp lemon extract (I am a freak: I do both)

Mix all ingredients and pour over baked mixture. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.

(The original recipe calls for frosting it with a mix of 3/4 C powdered sugar, 1 tbl butter, 1 tsp vanilla and 1/2 tsp milk, but that's just too sweet for me! I just dust some powdered sugar on top while it's still warm.)