Lemon & Pinenut Slice
Makes 30 pieces
Ingredients
11/4 cups pinenuts ;
1 cup sugar ;
2 cups desiccated coconut ;
2 cups rolled oats ;
275 grams butter ;
3 lemons (grated rind) ;
2 tblsp lemon juice ;
Method
Finely chop the pinenuts and place in a bowl
with the sugar, coconut and rolled oats and mix
together.
Melt the butter in a saucepan and continue
cooking until the butter has become nut brown.
Mix the butter, lemon rind and lemon juice
into the dry ingredients.
Press into a greased and lined 20cm x 30cm
slice tin.
Bake at 160C for 25-30 minutes until golden
brown. Mark into squares while warm. Cool and
then spread with lemon glaze.
Lemon glaze
Mix 2 cups sifted icing sugar with grated rind
of 2 lemons and sufficient lemon juice to make
a thin icing.
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