Lemon Meringue Pie

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6–8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Nation's Favourite Food: 100 Best-Loved Recipes Tried, Tested, Perfected

By Neven Maguire

Published 2013

  • About

As this pastry is so short, it’s in danger of breaking up when you are trying to roll it out. If this happens, try coarsely grating it directly into the tin and then quickly pressing the pastry up the sides and into the shape of the tin. No one will ever know the difference!

Ingredients

Pastry:

  • 175 g (6 oz) plain flour, extra for dusting
  • 100 g (4

Method

To make the pastry, place the flour, butter, sugar and salt into a food processor and blend for 20 seconds. Add the egg yolk and cream and blend again until the dough just comes together. Do not overwork or the pastry will be tough. Wrap in clingfilm and chill for 1 hour.

Thinly roll out the pastry into a buttered 20cm (8in) fluted loose-bottomed flan tin that’s about 3cm (1 ¼in) deep.