French Lemon Pie

  • on August 3, 2010
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Ingrients & Directions


PIE CRUST
3/4 c Wheat flour
1/4 lb Butter
2 tb Water

FILLING
1 Lemon
4 tb Butter
1 Egg
1/2 c Sugar

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. 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 425 degrees F. Let the pie cool down.

NOTES:

* 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.

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

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

: Anders Rantila
: CS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
: seismo!mcvax!enea!liuida!ara

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Yields
1 pie

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