This cake is like Lego - three completely independent ready-made pieces are added up - and it turns out a wonderful thing! Very sweet meringue, sour filling and neutral base. Such a cake you, probably, often saw in cookbooks, this is a famous recipe.
The main thing that forms the basis of taste is lemon cream, which is usually suggested to cook in a water bath. But I assure you - this is superfluous! Eggs will not curdle, even if you bring the cream to a boil - there is too much sugar and acid in it. So feel free to put the pot on the fire and do not be afraid! Also about this cream is written.
The cake is very similar to, only the filling is not baked, but brewed separately.

These Americans are crazy, as Obelix would say. This is one of the most popular restaurants at the table and guarantees success in any celebration. Lemon pie, covered with meringue, is, at its discretion, a classic among the classics, and no one is better than Martha Stewart to design the perfect recipe.

Lemon and meringue pie is a perfectly balanced dessert. Peaks and knots of sweet meringue, almost ingrained, on a delicious filling and acid. But some tricks can prevent the most common setbacks, such as a paste base or a watery filling. First, the base must be completely baked without filling, so that it is strong and clear. On a half oil base, half butter, similar to that used here, there is a pleasant crumbly and tender texture.

The basis of the cake - tarta of. Beat with powdered sugar (2 tablespoons) 100 grams butter, add the egg and again beat in a smooth cream. I add 7 flours (gradually) and get a smooth and soft dough. I make a small cake out of it and put it in the fridge for half an hour. it is usually quite difficult to roll out such a dough, it can crumble. Therefore, I use baking paper. I draw on it a circle of the desired diameter and roll out the dough in size.

Replace it with oil if you want. Filling the cream thickens with egg yolks and cornstarch. It should boil completely and then boil for a few minutes so that the cornstarch will turn on and thicken well, says Martha Stewart, presenting this recipe in her latest book, Tartas.

The best lemon and meringue pie recipe

Cool or freeze until it stops. Align the base with baking paper and a lid with scales or dried legumes. Bake until the edges turn brown. Continue to bake until golden brown. Let it cool on the rack. Combine the cornstarch, sugar, zest and salt in a saucepan. Apply to medium temperature, stirring until bubbling and thickness, about 7 minutes. In a medium bowl, beat the yolks well. Add the cornstarch mixture in a slow and steady flow, whipping until fully incorporated. Return the mixture to the saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until it boils again for 1-2 minutes. Remove from heat and add lemon juice. Add oil in batches of 15 g, until each piece is melted before adding the next. Let the cream in the pan cool on the rack for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour the cream on the dough. Press a piece of transparent film directly onto the surface of the cream. Cool until the creamy filling is cold and firm for at least 6 hours or overnight. Create a merring mount on the filling, so that it extends to the edge and touches the base. Use a cooking torch to slightly lower the meringue spikes. Another option is to put the cake under the braid for 1 or 2 minutes; Watch for the meringue to burn.

  • Fold the projection inward, align it with the edge of the form and twist the edges.
  • Press the entire surface of the dough with a fork.
Do you want to make a breeze with homemade butter?

I roll the dough on a rolling pin straight with the paper.

And spread in the form. A little trim, removing the paper and sweeping the sides of the rolling pin - ready! Put the paper back and load it. However, I want to note that this dough, due to thorough mixing, does not tend to swell and remains, unlike chopped, even and beautiful without any balls. But beautiful!

Add the butter and continue processing until the mixture looks like coarse flour, and some pieces of butter disappear. And keep processing. Divide the dough in half between two pieces of transparent film. Form two balls, wrap them loosely in film. Press each of them using the clip that forms the disc. Refrigerate until firm, well wrapped in film, 1 hour or up to 1 day. It can freeze up to 3 months; Thaw in the refrigerator before use.

  • Mix the flour, salt and sugar in a food processor.
  • Spray a mixture of 60 ml of water.
  • Try it only until the mixture begins to mix.
  • If the dough is too dry, add 60 ml of water, in batches of 1 tbsp.
How do you make perfect meringues?


Bake with a load at 20 ° C for 20 minutes, then another 5 minutes without a load. Cooling down. I usually do this in advance (yesterday).

Lemon cream. First, pour 150 grams of sugar into a bowl and rub the zest of two lemons into it. Stir.


With a medium-speed blender, grind egg whites and tartar cream to the penis. Increase the speed and rhythm until the meringue is bright and stable. Cover a tablespoon of meringue over the surface of the cake until it reaches mass, and then form vortices with an elbow spatula. You can use a torch to make meringue toasts by moving the flame until it turns evenly brown. Or dora meringue on the grill, but do not pay attention: just a minute or two is enough. Stand in vanilla. . This lemon pie has three simple elaborations, on the one hand, the base, saber with almonds.

Squeeze the juice of three lemons and add to the sugar.


Beat three eggs well and strain so that protein fibers do not remain unbroken. Before the foam, do not beat, you just need to stir very carefully.


Add lemon mixture, pour into a saucepan, put on fire. Stir, boil until thickened.

Rich and refreshing lemon or lemon curd cream, and also decorate the Swiss meringue. Thus, there is no need to install it so long as not to notice the sugar granules, as is the case with French meringue. This is yes, you must keep the temperature so that the whites do not curl. This is meringue, which is usually used for baking, or, as in this case, gold with a torch, because, although it is much more stable and lasts longer, without a decline than the French meringue, it is not so, for example, as an Italian.

For basic saber with almonds

Like everyone else, it is very important that the bowl and dishes be free of water, fats or yolks that eluded us when they separated them from whites. What is not essential is that they are white at room temperature, as we heat them into the Mary bath before assembling. Come with a recipe and keep enjoying the summer if you can. Sifted wheat flour1, diameter 16 cm in diameter and 2 cm in height. Lemon juice ½ lemon lime 1 whole egg and 2 yolks 75 g sugar 1 tablespoon of cornstarch 40 g soft butter 1 gelatin leaf.

Lemon Pie Preparation Procedure

  Prepare a base saber with almonds. Eggs are white 200 g. Sugar. . Easy to beat, just mix these ingredients.


Put in a warm cream 30-50 grams of oil, stir.


Cream put in tartinku, cool.


In general, ordinary whipped whites are used for this cake, but since they remain raw, I don’t like it. I beat them in a water bath with powdered sugar, they brew and warm up.
Four squirrels, 225 grams powdered sugar   mix slightly.

Then add the beaten eggs and mix again until it is turned on. Then we turn off the machine, and we dump the dough on the counter. With hands, we collected a lot, but without mixing, to obtain a compact ball. We wrap it in paper and we put it in the fridge for a couple of hours, it must be very cold for it to work.

We have a special metal ring for cakes, in this case it is 16 cm in diameter and 2 cm in height, we lubricate it with melted butter or a non-stick spray. We pulled the dough out of the salad from the fridge, placed it between two papers from the oven, we stretched it out with care and careful not to break it, until the thickness of a maximum centimeter was reached. With a hoop, take a measure and cut off the circle of the mass of the saber. Insert a circle inside the ring, attach it well to the base and edges so that it remains even.


Put in a bath and beat 5-8 minutes to high density.


Put the spoon on the cream. You can use kornetik with a nozzle.


Bake for a few minutes under the grill, and I really like it when a crisp is obtained from above, and I bake at 180 ° C for about 15 minutes.
The cake should be well cooled, otherwise the cream will be watery.

Bake the saber base for about 14 minutes. We carefully remove the oven so as not to burn, when we can manipulate, dismantle and cool on the grate. Cut out a strip of acetate of the same diameter as the base saber, and we will put it around. We re-place the ring, as shown in the video, so that the acetate is between the ring and the saber.

To make this lemon cake, obviously, we have to make a lemon cream that will go on the saber we prepared earlier. We put gelatin leaves in a very cold waterto soften them when it's so hot, it's normal if we put an ice cube in the water.

Kurd ( custard on citrus juice) it is not difficult. The cake that we cook today is baked in a tart style - fragrant thick custard on a crumbly sandy basis is covered with a cloud of tender meringue. This cake is better known in lemon format, but we make it even more fragrant, using juice and zest, not only lemons, but also oranges with tangerines and other citrus fruits, with the exception of grains, which are fairly bitter. We make the Kurd for the filling thick so that it does not spread when cutting, citrus juice is suitable for any composition, you can even use the purchased one, as long as you like it как The sand base, like in any tart, is pre-baked, then filled with Kurd, meringue is covered, and the whole structure is re-subjected to a brief heat treatment, during which the meringue turns into a meringue. This is the algorithm for making sand-citrus surprise cake, and now more 🙂

In a large bowl, mix the whole egg with some chopsticks and two yolks along with the sugar. Then add the cornstarch and mix well until it is turned on, and there are no pieces. Put the juice and lemon zest   in a small saucepan, put it on low heat. When it comes to boiling, remove the heat from it and slowly pour the liquid over the previous mixture of eggs, stirring constantly with rods. Give the mixture to the same pan and cook a very soft fire to thick, without stopping, so as not to interfere, so that it does not stick to the bottom of the pan.

  • Training:   1 hour
  • Cooking:   40 minutes
  • It turns out:   1200 grams

Ingredients


6 Cooking citrus Kurd, and you, if you want, can cook purely lemon - the only difference is in the composition of the juice 🙂 Citrus fruits are my hard sponge in hot running water. Then, from one lemon or orange on a fine grater, we erase the zest - only a fragrant colored layer, to a bitter white layer. You can erase the zest from all the fruits used for the juice - this is an excellent flavoring for different pastries, you can dry out the excess 🙂

Remove from heat and place the cream in a clean bowl. Quickly turn on a well-drained gelatin mixture very well until it is completely dissolved. We add soft butter to the cubes, and we remove it until it is integrated. Pour lemon cream on the base of the saber, right up to the edges of the rim.

We reserved a lemon cake in the fridge until it settled for about 20 minutes. In a bowl, we put the egg whites and add sugar, we put the bowl in the bath of Mary. When the sugar dissolves, remove the bowl from the bath and transfer the egg whites to the mixer bowl.


7 Then, in any convenient way, we squeeze out the citrus juice to make it 350 ml. It is desirable to measure the amount of juice accurately so that the consistency of the Kurd is correct - take a measuring cup.


We beat at a speed until the drug is completely cold, and we get white, shiny and hard meringues. We have cookies with a smooth nozzle of 10 mm. Fill the sleeve with a piece of Swiss meringue. We make a spiral over lemon cream, starting from the center to the edges. We have a second bag for the test, and we put the mouthpiece. Fill it with the rest of the meringue and decorate it, as you can see in the video and image.

We are releasing the month of February with delicious recipethat will fill your home with the flavors of toasted sugar. To prepare the base, mix the flour and butter at a low speed until a sandy mixture appears that looks like bread crumbs. Add sugar icing and egg and mix thoroughly until smooth. As soon as we reach, we advise you to stop kneading, so as not to overdo it and make the base tasty.

8 Strain juice to prevent bone from getting into the cream 🙂 If you do not want too concentrated and spicy taste of the Kurd, then the juice can be slightly diluted with water to a volume of 350 ml. The sweetness of the cream is also to your taste. If you cook on lemon juice - put a lot of sugar, a whole glass. And if you add sweet orange and tangerine juices, then half of a cup of sugar may suffice.

Make the ball with the dough by hand, cover with foil and cool for about 15 minutes. After this time, divide the dough into equal parts and spread it on the flour surface until it becomes about 4-5 mm thick. Place it on the molds and tighten the edges with your fingers.

Roll the roller over the mold to cut off excess material that protrudes around the edges. Pinch the dough with a fork so that it does not rise. Preheat oven to 180 °. Meanwhile, in order to avoid dough growth during baking, we put aluminum foil or baking film on our dough and cover it with rice.

9 Pour the strained juice into a saucepan, add sugar and starch, mix thoroughly. Starch quickly settles to the bottom, so that when cooking it will have to be actively stirred, so that there are no lumps in the Kurd.


10 We divide Kurdish eggs - whites in the bowl with the first protein and in the fridge, and we sprinkle the yolks with a fork and pour into the mixture.

After removing from the oven, remove the foil and rice and allow it to cool completely. To make the cream, put the zest of 2 lemons, the juice of 4 lemons and water in a saucepan to reduce the acidity. Remove well and add sugar, butter and 5 previously beaten eggs. Heat over low heat without disturbing to thickness.

To cook the meringue, heat the egg whites, mix with sugar, until the water bath until the sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat and set on snow until meringue solid. This week we received with great horror the news that on the day when it was considered that the embassy, ​​one of the iconic tea rooms of Madrid, had passed. This sad statement, made by the company itself, fell like a bomb, because, although they would support the establishments that they have on Potosi Street, in La Moraledge and in Valdemarin, the embassy of all life, there was always something else.


11 Add also a tablespoon of the dried peel of lemons and oranges, mix. Put the saucepan on a medium heat and stir up very actively to the very bottom, heat the mixture until there are signs of boiling. The mixture on the eyes thickens.


12 Reduce heat to a minimum and, continuing to interfere, add chopped butter.


13 We warm the cream for a minute, stirring it all the way to the bottom, until its consistency becomes convincingly thick, resembling confiture.


14 Quickly cool the Kurd - take out to a cool room or put in a bowl with cold water, so that the starch, which determines the consistency of the cream, does not lose viscosity.

15 Go back to the test. We take it out of the fridge and place it in a baking dish (we have 22 cm silicone). You can first slightly roll out and then stretch the shape of the hands with a layer about 5 mm thick, arranging for the Kurd's capacity sides of 2-2.5 cm.

16 Prick the dough with a fork and put in the oven, heated to 180 degrees on. The cake should be completely baked and browned.


17 Leave the cake to cool, and at this time prepare the protein top for the cake. This is quite simple. We take out a bowl of proteins from the refrigerator, add a pinch of citric acid or salt (to beat better :-)), and beat with a mixer, at low speed, until a fluffy foam is formed. Then we increase the speed, and add 3-4 tablespoons of powdered sugar one by one. The last spoonful of powder mixed with starch. Beat until "sharp peaks", while the sweet protein mass will turn out steadily lush and strong. If desired, add vanillin to the fragrance along with the powder - a little bit, at the tip of the knife. When baking, starch gives meringue a special soft-viscous consistency, as in.


18 All the components of the cake are ready, you can put it together 🙂 We put the cooled and even thickened Kurd into the cooled base and level it.


19 Top up with whipped whites.


20 Protein top on the cake can be molded as you like - with lush peaks, a spoon, or symmetrical “flowers” ​​using a pastry syringe. We prefer freestyle styling - we simply distribute the protein foam with a spoon, without taking it too much.

21 Put the cake in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees.


22 Top should only redden slightly. Do not overdo the cake in the oven - bake the top until brown crust is clearly not worth it. Our cake after baking looks like this.


This is all. 🙂 Give the cake to cool to room temperature, and can be served at the table.

The cake is interesting heterogeneity of the consistency of its constituent parts and taste contrasts. Crumbly base, jelly core with a bright citrus taste and aroma and delicate sweetness of the protein top are combined in it unexpectedly and very seductively. This dessert will be very appropriate for Valentine's Day, but in principle for any holiday in the season of citrus boom

The good news is that not only such pies are baked with citrus and other Kurds. Kurds can be used as a filling for puffs or layered with them - this is also cool 🙂

Happy baking and bon appetit!