COOKING WITH OLGA

It´s spring! Let´s make a lemon pie!!!    I have a little lemon tree in my back garden.  It has more than 100 lemons on it and they are waiting to be processed in my kitchen.  I love cooking! Have I mentioned before? My specialty, which I´ve featured on this blog, is my successful lemon pie.  It´s not too much acid or sweet but great for a wormy spring afternoon…

RECIPE

Lemons are an endless source of vitamins, and they are at a good price in spring.  We can start this delicious lemon tart with a shortbread crust. Of course, this is not made from cookies! Just put the flour, sugar, eggs, cold butter and a little of cold water in a bowl, previously covered with a film –a thin plastic used for food- Mix the ingredients until you see a dough beginning to form, and place the dough wrapped in the film in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile the dough is getting cold we are going to cook the lemon filling.  It consists of lemon juice, sugar, the egg yolks (=the yellow part), water and corn starch (=maize, British). Put them in a pan, turn the fire down and cook until smooth, whirling constantly. When the filling is ready, place the dough on a plastic film on the kitchen table and press it with your hands and fingers, turn it over, and cover the lower part of a pan cake or tin (British). Then, the crust is baked till is golden brown, about 13-15 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 180 degrees. Finally, the topping is made of egg white (= the white part) and sugar. Both ingredients are mixed until the cream is just set. The filling is then poured into the baked crust tart and covered with the white cream.

CRUST 300 grams plain flour (It´s different from self-raising  flour which contains no baking powder) 150 grams sugar 150 grams butter 1 water table spoon 3 egg yolks LEMON FILLING 4 table spoons sugar 4 egg yolks 1 1/2 cup water 4 table spoons lemon juice 2 full spoons maize TOPPING 4 white eggs 16 full spoon sugar Some drops of lemon juice

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