Sweet Lemon Pastry

Name: Sweet Lemon Pastry
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 275 g plain flour; ½ vanilla bean, split; 125 g unsalted butter, diced and chilled; 90 g icing sugar; 20 ml fresh lemon juice; ½ teaspoon minced lemon zest; 1 egg

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Paramount Desserts

By Christine Manfield

Published 1998

About

This quantity of pastry is sufficient for six 12 cm tart shells or a 30 cm one.

Ingredients

275 g plain flour
90 g icing sugar
½ teaspoon

Oceania
Australia
Pastry
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Chill the bowl and blade of a food processor in the refrigerator.
Sift the flour and icing sugar and then blend with the lemon zest in the food processor. With the motor running, scrape in the seeds from the vanilla bean and add the butter egg and lemon juice and work until the dough forms a ball. Wrap the dough in plastic film and refrigerate for 2 hours.