Apricot Bars

• 1 2/3 c. dried apricots, rinsed quickly and dried
• 1 2/3 c. sugar
• zest of 3 lemons
• 5 large eggs
• 3/4 c. lemon juice
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. salt

1. Finely
2. chop apricots, lemon zest and sugar, reserve the mixture.
3. Add the eggs and whip until they are light.
4. When the cookie
5. base
6. is
7. baked, proceed by adding the chopped apricots and
8. the
9. baking
10. powder/salt
11. to
12. eggs
13. and
14. add
15. lemon juice. Carefully and evenly pour apricot/egg mixture on top of the hot cookie base
16. (do
17. this
18. by
19. pouring
20. the apricot mixture onto a spatula and
21. letting
22. the liquid fall from the spatula onto the cookie base).
23. Bake for 25 minutes.
24. If the top is not as brown as you would like it to be, turn the broiler on; you must watch very closely.
25. When
26. they
27. are
28. done,
29. let
30. cool,
31. cut, using a downward
32. motion
33. only.
34. To keep, cover with parchment paper or brown paper.
35. Saran
36. Wrap
37. will ruin the tops of the bars.
38. You may sprinkle finished bars with powdered sugar.

dried apricots, sugar, eggs, lemon juice, baking powder, salt

Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=175702 (may not work)