Lemony GOODness

Round two of the lemon sour  bake-off was a TOTAL success!!! Now I get it! Now I know why everyone loved this gems!  Bottom layer, shortbread cakey-ness, middle kind of a pecan pie like layer of sweet goo, and top is a glazy haze of lemon sour!

"Bobby" Bollin's lemon sours on grammie-ish plate

Please, go make this now!  Recipe is Grammie’s,  method details and hints are all mine.

“Bobby” Bollin’s  Lemon Sours

First layer:

3/4 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup sugar

1 1/2 cups sifted flour

Cream butter and sugar together, then add flour. Press into a well-greased 13×9 baking pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Second layer:

1/4 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 cup chopped nut meats (love that term! She preferred walnuts, I used pecans cuz it’s Georgia, and it rocked!)

Mix dry ingredients then add beaten eggs and nuts.  Pour over top and bake at 35o for 20 minutes.

Third layer

2 cups powdered sugar

1 tbsp softened butter

1 tbsp. grated lemon zest

juice from one lemon

Add butter to sugar and work together with your hands until butter is incorporated.  Sugar should still be crumbly but you won’t see any butter in there.  Add lemon zest and enough juice to make spreadable glaze, should be about one lemon’s worth, but don’t let it get too runny.

Spread over the hot bars.  Let cool fully before cutting (good luck waiting for that!)

I haven’t picked my next Grammie recipe yet… maybe a relish (!) … this woman really did relish the relishes…  stay tuned!

We had a snow day yesterday and we all quickly reverted back to our winter break lethargy.

E goes for a snowy ride

The only real accomplishment was we picked up the hubster’s new car.  Now don’t go get excited… he replaced his old dead beater with a live beater… it is slightly less awful than his 1992 Nissan, and more than a decade younger.  But as we are committed to debt reduction, we are following Dave on this purchase, so we’re grateful to be a 2 car family again and without a massive car loan.

So now that we’ve got 2 cars, guess that means I can get my hiney back to work!  Progress is occurring on that front, I hope to have an announcement soon, but these things rarely go as you expect,  so we shall see.  Please send your good job vibes my way, I really am ready to get back to being productive and excited about what I’m doing.  I also function better with a set routine, a free-form schedule really tests my discipline and really… how many battles of will can I face each day?  New research says ONE… one!  That means if you’re working to eat well, your exercise resolve is doomed, or if you’re focusing on limited spending (hello??!!) that’s about all you can mentally accomplish! Yikes!!!   Now maybe that’s why resolutions fail!

We’re still snow covered and freezing today.  My Saturday plan includes a deep cleaning downstairs, sammy lunch and maybe a movie night…

Stay warm, cuz I’m not!!

Freezin' in the ATL

Susie

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