FRENCH LEMON PIE

A French dessert cake

My girlfriend got this recipe when she lived in Paris three years ago. In French it is called Tarte au citron.

Ingredients

(One pie)

Pie

crust

200 ml wheat flour
100 g butter
30 ml water

Filling

1 lemon
60 g butter
1 egg
150 ml sugar

Procedure

Preheat the oven to 225C
Make crust: Mix flour and butter in a food processor. Add water and form a dough. Press into a pie pan.
Make filling: Grate the lemon peel. Press the juice out of the lemon.
Melt the butter.
Beat the egg with sugar, the melted butter, lemon juice and lemon peel.
Pour the filling into the pie crust.
Bake in oven for about 30 minutes at 225C
Let the pie cool down.

Notes

If you don't have a food processor, you can use your hands instead.

Rating

Difficulty: Easy to moderate.
Time: 50 minutes.
Precision: Measure the ingredients.

Contributor

 
Anders Rantila  
CS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden 
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Recipe last modified: 20 Jan 87

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