Ida Marverti’s Lemon Pie

Name: Ida Marverti’s Lemon Pie
Ingredients: 6 oz / 170 g plain flour; pinch of baking powder; 2 tbsp plain flour, sifted; 2 tbsp caster sugar; grated zest of 2 lemons; 7 fl oz / 200 ml full-cream milk; 1 oz / 30 g vanilla sugar; 3 oz / 85 g unsalted butter, softened and cut up; 2 egg yolks; 1½ oz / 40 g caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

About

Ingredients

Pastry

6 oz / 170 g plain flour
pinch of baking powder

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Heap the flour and baking powder on a worktop, and make a well in the middle. Put the pieces of butter in the well with the sugars and egg yolks. Draw in the flour with your fingertips, and work the ingredients together quickly to form a dough. Add more flour only if necessary. Cover the pastry, and let it stand while you make the filling. Cream the egg yolks and sugar together until pale and f