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French Lemon Pie

Cuisine: German
Courses: Pies
Serves: 6 people

Recipe Ingredients

  Pie Crust
3/4 cup 46g / 1.6ozWheat flour
2 tablespoons 30mlWater
1/4 lb 113g / 4ozButter
  Filling
1   Lemon
1   Egg
4 tablespoons 60mlButter
1/2 cup 99g / 3.5ozSugar

Recipe Instructions

Preheat the oven to 425F

Make crust: Mix flour and butter in a food processor. Add water and form a dough. Press into a pie pan.

MAKE FILLING: Grate the lemon peel. Press the juice out of the lemon.

Melt the butter. Beat the egg with sugar, the melted butter, lemon juice and lemon peel.

Pour the filling into the pie crust.

Bake in oven for about 30 minutes at 425F Let the pie cool down.

NOTES:

* A French dessert cake -- My girlfriend got this recipe when she lived in Paris three years ago. In French it is called Tarte au citron.

* If you don't have a food processor, you can use your hands instead.

Source:
THE OREGONIAN NEWSPAPER

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