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Garden Club Lemon Bars

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This is my favorite lemon bars recipe, which I originally copied out of my mother's old Garden Club cookbook, hence the name. I have been making this recipe since I was a little girl and I have always loved it. I have made these so many times over the years and have not really ever felt the need to improve on it. However, when I was a girl I did used to use dried bottled lemon zest(yikes), since I wasn't allowed to use the razor sharp grater. I use the real thing now that I am an adult. I have to admit that I do still usually use the bottled RealLemon lemon juice rather than fresh to this day - in fact, I buy it specifcally for these bars. There is something very nostalgic to me about that green jar of bottled juice, that it just doesn't seem fitting to use anything else. :)

by HeatherFeather·published 2003-01-15

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Bar Cookie

Servings

16 bars

Total time

50 min

prep 15 min

Calories / serving

124 kcal

Ingredients (10)

serves

1 cup all-purpose flourflour
1/3 cup sweet unsalted butterbutter
1/4 cup powdered sugarsugar
3/4 cup granulated sugarsugar
2 large eggs or 2 large egg whites, lightly beaten with a fork until foamyegg
3 tablespoons lemon juice (psst -I use bottled lemon juice in this most often)lemon
2 tablespoons grated lemon zestlemon
1/2 teaspoon baking powderbaking-powder
1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)salt
1/4 cup powdered sugar or 1/4 cup icing sugar, for dusting tops, approximatelysugar

Instructions (10 steps)

01Preheat oven to 350°F.
02Combine crust ingredients until mixture resembles crumbs using a pastry blender or a couple of butter knives.
03Press into a greased and floured 8" square glass baking pan using your fingers- press it so that the entire bottom of the pan is covered evenly.

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