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  Tart Lemon Tart

 

Ingredients

Base
1 blind baked, short crust pastry case (8 inches)

Filling
2 lemons, quartered

10 fl oz/300 ml dry white wine

8oz/225 g cube white sugar

3 eggs

 

Method

 

  • Pre-heat oven to 180/350.   10 degrees less for a fan oven. 

  • Poach lemon quarters in white wine, with the sugar for 15 minutes.   Remove the pips from the lemons.    

  • Put the lemons in to a food processor, and blitz on high speed.   Add poaching liquid, with eggs one at a time, and blitz again.  

  • Pour lemon custard through a coarse sieve into the pastry case, and bake in the pre-heated oven for 30 minutes.     If the edges of the pastry tart start to brown, protect with tin foil.    

  • Serve warm or cold with vanilla ice cream or cream.