Name: Lemon tart
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 60 min
Yield: 12 portions
Cuisine: England
Ingredients: 300 g plain flour; 150 g unsalted butter; 0.5 tsp salt; 120 g icing sugar; 3 egg yolks, pastry; 0.5 vanilla bean, seeds; 0.5 lemon, zest only; 1 egg, glaze; 5 lemons, zest and juice; 300 ml double cream; 390 g caster sugar; 9 eggs, filling; 1 egg yolk, filling

Lemon tart

A home adaptation of Heston Blumenthal’s published lemon tart.

Prep30 min

Cook60 min

Yield12 portions

Editorial home-cooking adaptation · Not yet kitchen-tested. Timings are estimates; additional soaking, rising or chilling may apply. Read the complete method before starting.

Heston Blumenthal

This is Private Kitchen’s concise home adaptation, not the chef’s original text. Read the source for the complete published method and context.

Read the published recipe

Three-star restaurant connection: The Fat Duck, Bray · MICHELIN Guide . Restaurant recognition does not certify this recipe. No affiliation or endorsement.

Let’s make it.

Rub flour, butter and salt together. Blend icing sugar with pastry yolks; add vanilla and zest. Combine, flatten and chill one hour.

Roll to 2 mm; freeze 30 minutes. Line a 26 cm tin with overhang. Prick, weight and bake at 190°C for 20 minutes.

Remove weights; brush with egg blended with spare dough. Bake ten minutes; cool.

Warm filling ingredients over water to 60°C; strain. Fill warmed shell; bake at 120°C about 25 minutes to 71°C. Cool; trim.

A little kitchen note

Private Kitchen home adaptation of the linked published recipe; not kitchen-tested or endorsed by the chef. Allow chilling, freezing and cooling; use a probe thermometer. Safety adaptation: filling target raised from the source’s 70°C to 71°C.

Allergen notes

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A little nourishment.

Illustrative nutrition estimate · Per listed portion (1/12 of the recipe)

Energy

511 kcal

Protein

9.6 g

Carbs

63.8 g

Fat

24.9 g

Fibre

0.7 g

Total sugar

43.8 g

Sodium

169 mg

Approximate generic ingredient estimates, not verified nutrition labels. Includes quantified optional ingredients; unquantified “as needed” salt, oils or garnishes may be excluded. Brands, substitutions, portions and cooking change values. Nutrition stays per portion when batch quantities are scaled. How we estimate nutrition

Approximate generic ingredient estimates. Brands, edible portions and cooking change values.

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