Apricot Bars - cooking recipe

Ingredients

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

Preparation

Finely
chop apricots, lemon zest and sugar, reserve the mixture.
Add the eggs and whip until they are light.
When the cookie
base
is
baked, proceed by adding the chopped apricots and
the
baking
powder/salt
to
eggs
and
add
lemon juice. Carefully and evenly pour apricot/egg mixture on top of the hot cookie base
(do
this
by
pouring
the apricot mixture onto a spatula and
letting
the liquid fall from the spatula onto the cookie base).
Bake for 25 minutes.
If the top is not as brown as you would like it to be, turn the broiler on; you must watch very closely.
When
they
are
done,
let
cool,
cut, using a downward
motion
only.
To keep, cover with parchment paper or brown paper.
Saran
Wrap
will ruin the tops of the bars.
You may sprinkle finished bars with powdered sugar.