A cooking recipe: Lemon Meringue Pie

Preparation time:
20 minutes.
Cooking time:
20 minutes x 2.
Ingredients:

  4 egg yolks ( yemas )

 40 grams of flour (harina)

 75 grams of sugar

  1 lemon

 1/4 litre milk

  20 gr. of butter (mantequilla)

   a tart (la base de la tarta) 

 For the meringue: 
2 egg whites (claras)
Demarara sugar (brown sugar)

Preparation method

- Take the skin (piel) of a lemon (no white if possible) and boil (hierve) it in the milk.Leave to cool.(Déjalo enfriar)
- Mix (mezcla)  flour, sugar and egg yolks.Add the milk ( without skin) and half the juice from the lemon. Pour it (viértelo)  into* the tart ( already made) which is well buttered (mantequilla extendida).
- Put in a hot oven (horno) for 20 minutes at the top of the oven.

Meringue

- Whisk (bate) the egg whites adding sugar little by little until the mixture is hard. Pour it into the tart.
- Put it back into the oven at a low temperature for 20 minutes to give it a lovely golden colour (color dorado).

   Try it and tell us how it went  !!    

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