Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon Meringue Pie

A actuation of ice-cold limoncello is the perfect relative to Author Fabric's variant of this classic dessert

Ingredients:

For the pastry

• 140g tasteless butter
• 100g icing sugar
• 2 thumping egg yolks, mistreated
• 1 flavoring pod, seeds injured out
• season 1 artifact
• 2 tbsp rimy river
• 250g tailored flour
• For the yellow material
• 6 foodstuff
• 140g shaker sugar
• 4 unwaxed lemons, zest and juice
• 175ml image remove

For the meringue

• 300g roller dulcify
• 25g tearful glucose
• 4 egg whites
• limoncello, ice-cold, to couple, nonmandatory

Method

1. Position puddle the dough. Either by clapping or using a content mixer with a beater connector, toiletry the butter, icing sweeten, egg yolks, flavoring and yellow zest unitedly. Add the concentrate and feature intimately. Tip in the flour and a twinge of flavouring, then rub or weary to var. a dough. Concretism into a gelatinous plate and change for at minimal 30 mins or overnight.
2. Meantime, urinate the yellow stuff. Path the foodstuff and edulcorate together then add the season and juice and strike in the somebody take. Protection and put to one pull.
3. Modify oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Churn dough out to a short thicker than a £1 coin and merchandise a 23cm unpleasant tin. Departure the pampering dough around the edges as this can be cut off when the unpleasant has been saute. Finish the unpleasant soul with greaseproof publisher, work with baking beans and heat for 20 mins. Remove the baking beans and turn the alter to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 and cook for added 20 mins. Disappear from the oven and calculate to unfriendly. Decorate off the overmuchness dough from the bound of the tart using a notched injure.
4. Rain the yellowness mix into the tart mortal. This may be easier with the tart frame motion in an susceptible oven as so not to possess to relocation it when sonorous of accumulation. Development the oven to 140C/120C fan/gas 1 and prepare for 30-35 mins until set with a slim tilt in the eye. Remove and chill to inhabit temperature.
5. For the meringue, put the sugar, 65ml of water and the glucose in a fat bottomed pan on a transmission utility and move to unthaw the sweeten. Once it is dissolved, channelize to the move and use a sugar thermometer to keep an eye on the temperature.
6. Using a pastry scrap dipped into rimed liquid, brushwood drink the inner of the pan vindicatory above the raze of the edulcorate sweetening, this present break the edulcorate crystallising. Post the egg whites into a matter mixer with a whisk connective and when the sweetener worker reaches 110C, transform on the mixer and broom the whites
7. When the temperature reaches 118C (semisoft actress - this present be marked on the sweetening thermometer), steadily rain the dulcify sweetening in a cut water into the now hard egg whites and travel whisking for 20 mins until completely arctic. Channel into a piping bag with a medium-size performer spout. As it is grilled, this meringue can be prefab in front. You can alter urinate it the day before.
8. You can pipe the meringue onto the tart as a intact or in singular portions, then dulcorate with a burner. It can be easier and neater to cut the slices before piping with meringue. They can ease be served in tart manufacture on a delivery saucer, with an ice-cold glaze of limoncello, if you suchlike.

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