Lemon Meringue Pie

Name: Lemon Meringue Pie
Yield: makes 20 cm/8 inch tart serves 6
Ingredients: 60 g unsalted butter cubed small; 300 ml. water; 3–6 egg whites, it depends on how cloudy you like your meringue; 90–120 g vanilla caster sugar; grated zest and juice of 3 large lemons; 3 large egg yolks; 90 g vanilla caster sugar; 45 g cornflour

Preparation info

makes 20 cm 8 inch tart serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Smart Tart

By Tamasin Day-Lewis

Published 2013

About

A true classic, and one that all children seem to love as much as all adults, the sharp twang of lemon with the sweet, crisp, mallowy-middled meringue.

Ingredients

grated zest and juice of 3 large lemons
45 g cornflour
300

Pastry
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas 4. Make the usual shortcrust pastry, bake blind and dry out in the oven.

Meanwhile, make the filling and the meringue: put the zest and juice in the top of a double boiler, and add the cornflour which you’ve whisk