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Lemon Meringue Pie

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Ingredients

  • Ingredients:
  • For the Pastry...
  • 150 g Plain Flour
  • 85 g Butter, cut into small pieces
  • 35 g Icing Sugar (sifted)
  • Finely grated rind of half a lemon
  • Half an egg yolk (beaten)
  • For the Filling and Meringue:
  • 3 tbsp cornflour
  • 300 ml water
  • Juice and grated rind of 2 lemons
  • 175 g Caster Sugar
  • 2 eggs (seperated)
  • 1 1/2 tbsp milk

Details

Servings 1

Preparation

Step 1

To make the pastry,
Sift the flour into a large bowl
Rub in the butter, with your fingertips until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs,
Mix in the remaining ingredients,
Knead briefly on a floured surface (dont over knead!)
Wrap in cling film and leave in the fridge for 30 mins or so....

Preheat the oven to 180/gas mark 4,
grease a tart tin (i didnt have a tart tin so i just used a glass dish)
roll out the pastry and line the tin or dish (on the bottom and up the sides)
make little pricks all over with a fork,
line with greaseproof paper and fill with baking beans (i also didnt have baking beans so i used un-cooked rice.
Bake in the oven for 15 mins

For the filling:
Mix the cornflour with a little water to form a paste,
put the remaining water in a saucepan,
Stir in the lemon juice, rind and cornflour paste,
Bring to the boil (stiring constantly!)
Cook for 2 mins, cool a little,
stir in 5 tablespoons of caster sugar and the egg yolks,
Pour into the pastry case.

For the Meringue:
Now if i had my dream Kitchenaid Artisan this would have been easy as pie! but alas all i had was a whisk and a bowl!
it took about 25 mins to whisk the egg whites till they were stiff.
then i folded in the rest of the caster sugar.

Then i spooned the meringue over the pie, and baked it for 40 mins.

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