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Wednesday November 29, 2006

Citron tarte

While my wife was in London for the day I made the above tarte. She said that it was the lightest tastiest Lemon Tart she had ever had. It is from a recipe from Gordon Ramsey's "Sunday lunch and other recipes from the F-word" book. The base was a Sweet flan pastry mix and the filling a mixture of two eggs, four egg yolks 180g, caster sugar, 200ml double cream and juice of two lemons. I found a couple of problems with the recipe both which nearly ended in disaster - the first being the pastry which just kept falling to bits when I tried to get it into the cake tin. I ended up making a pastry base that looked like a patchwork quilt afterwards. The second panic was the cooking time. I think the filling was meant to be a lot stiffer than it turned out it was almost like water when I poured it into the tin. It took almost one and a half hours to set. But the final verdict as it all got eaten was that it tasted very nice - so it was worth the effort.

( Nov 29 2006, 12:00:01 AM PST ) Permalink

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