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Recipe for "lemon-pie"

NAME

     LEMON-PIE - 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.

INGREDIENTS (One pie)

          PIE CRUST
     200 ml    wheat flour
     100 g     butter
     30 ml     water
          FILLING
     1         lemon
     60 g      butter
     1         egg
     150 ml    sugar

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Preheat the oven to 225 deg. C.
          (2)  Make crust: Mix flour and butter in a food proces-
               sor.  Add water and form a dough. Press into a pie
               pan.
          (3)  Make filling: Grate  the  lemon  peel.  Press  the
               juice out of the lemon.
          (4)  Melt the butter.
          (5)  Beat the egg with sugar, the melted butter,  lemon
               juice and lemon peel.
          (6)  Pour the filling into the pie crust.
          (7)  Bake in oven for about 30 minutes at 225 deg. C.
          (8)  Let the pie cool down.

NOTES

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

RATING

     Difficulty: Easy to moderate.  Time: 50 minutes.  Precision:
     Measure the ingredients.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Anders Rantila
     CS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
     seismo!mcvax!enea!liuida!ara