Lemon pie - sweet and sour treat for the whole family

Its amazing refreshing taste never ceases to attract more and more new fans who are ready to get to know him better. This is a popular homemade delicacy with a simple name - Lemon Pie. For a long time, it remains the most coveted pastry in the home kitchen, for its uncomplicated cooking method.

To create it, experienced chefs use various types of dough:

• shortbread;
• yeast;
• puff;
• on sour cream;
• biscuit.

Some of them may be sweet, others salty, but the delicacy always comes out with an original contrasting taste. The reason for this is the citrus filling. It can be lemon juice, zest, chopped in a blender or passed through meat grinder fetus. Thin-skinned lemons are suitable for this option because they have less white flesh. The most popular lemon pie filling is considered to be a special type of cream containing noble citrus.

The lemon contains pectin, which thickens the liquid filling.

Although this exotic fruit tastes as sour as other citrus fruits, when combined with flour, sugar and eggs, it is perceived in a completely new way. That is why there are a huge number of lemon pie recipes that are prepared not only by professionals, but also by novice confectioners. Consider the simplest options with step-by-step instructions and photos.

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All ingenious is simple

For a long time, the reserved English loved to pamper themselves with a lemon biscuit dough. And American housewives cook it with meringue and lemon curd. Russian chefs have found their own options, which are no worse than those of their overseas neighbors. The easiest lemon pie recipe includes the following foods:

• Wheat flour;
• chicken eggs;
• butter;
• granulated sugar;
• lemon;
• baking powder;
• powdered sugar;
• twig mint for decoration.

The baking method consists of the following simple steps:

1. Eggs are driven into a glass container. Add granulated sugar, lemon juice, zest and soft butter. Stir well, and then beat to get a homogeneous mass.
2. Wheat flour is sieved onto any flat surface through a sieve. Mix it with baking powder, then add in small portions to the egg mass and knead the batter.
3. Cover the baking dish with paper and grease with butter. Then the dough is carefully poured into it and sent to an oven preheated to 180 ° C. Bake for no more than 25 minutes.
4. While the cake is in the oven, the icing is prepared. To do this, whisk the egg whites into a strong foam, adding powdered sugar in stages. At the end of the process, pour in lemon juice and mix thoroughly.

Sprinkle the finished baked goods with icing sugar or cooked icing. Garnish with sliced ​​citrus and a mint branch.

It is advisable to apply decor to the finished product only after complete cooling.

Lemon Pie - Classic

Often such pastries are made from shortcrust pastry, which has remained at the peak of culinary fame for several centuries. To create a dessert, take a simple set of ingredients:

• wheat flour of the highest grade;
• sugar (white);
• eggs (chicken);
• butter;
• salt;
• soda;
• vinegar;
• gelatin.

Like similar recipes for a delicious lemon pie, this option is prepared by performing the following operations:

1. The butter is placed in microwave ovento bring it soft. If this is not possible, you can warm it up in a water bath.
2. Chicken eggs are driven into a spacious dish. In one of them, the protein is separated to use it for the top layer of baked goods.
3. Then add granulated sugar and beat with a mixer until a thick mass.
4. The baking soda is extinguished with table vinegar, put in sifted flour, and a dense dough is kneaded.
5. The formed flour ball is covered with cling film and sent to the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
6. For this recipe for a shortcrust cake with lemon, an original caramel is prepared. The main ingredient of the treat is poured over with boiling water and then squeezed into a small saucepan. The remaining zest is crushed using a blender or a meat grinder, and then sent to the juice.
7. Sugar (100 g) is put into the resulting mixture and 50 g of boiling water is poured. Mix all the components well, bring to a boil over the lowest heat. After the first bubbles appear, boil for another 2 minutes so that the mass acquires a brownish tint. A little gelatin is added to the slightly cooled caramel for stability of the product.
8. Roll out the base for a shortcrust cake with lemon from the chilled dough. They put it in a baking dish, making small sides. Then the caramel is poured. The oven is heated to 180 ° C and the future dessert is placed in it.
9. The next layer of filling is whipped egg whites with sugar.  
10. Next, a shortcrust pastry lemon pie is baked for another 10 minutes until a coffee-colored crust appears.
11. Serve in small portions.

Awesome yeast dough pie

Probably, there is no person on earth who would not like yeast baked goods. Since ancient times, it has been cooked in a rustic oven for family celebrations and tea parties. Today, electric or gas ovens are used for this.

Making an awesome Lemon Yeast Pie requires the simple ingredients found in every kitchen:

• large lemon;
• granulated sugar;
• yeast;
• butter;
• starch;
• salt;
• powdered sugar;
• water.

When the food is at hand, they start making the dough. Yeast is put in warm water, a little sugar and left for 15 minutes for a reaction to occur.

Flour is sifted into a deep bowl, then it is salted, mixed and butter is added.

With active movements of the hands, grind the ingredients into a homogeneous crumb, after which they pour in the dough and knead the dough.  

To make it fit well, they put it in a warm place for about one hour.

During this period, they begin to fill the lemon pie. For this, the fruit is first poured abundantly with boiling water. Then cut into two parts, remove the bones, pass through a meat grinder.

Sprinkle the finished mass with sugar and mix well.

You can also grind a lemon using a blender, but for this it is pre-cut into small slices.

The next step is to work with the test. First, it is divided in half, after which each is rolled into a thin sheet.

Spread one layer of yeast dough on a greased or parchment-covered baking sheet. Sprinkle it with starch and spread the lemon filling. Then it is covered with a second sheet of dough.

Gently connect the edges of the cake and make holes through which steam will escape. Dessert is baked at 180 ° C. 

Sprinkle generously with powdered sugar before serving.

Vitamin Citrus Pie

When you want something exotic, caring housewives prepare a vitamin pie with lemon and orange. To create it, you will need the following products:

• Wheat flour;
• butter;
• mayonnaise;
• sour cream;
• eggs;
• soda;
• vinegar.

First, butter is softened in a water bath and added to eggs, sour cream and mayonnaise. All products are mixed well with a spoon.Then add granulated sugar and soda slaked with vinegar and evenly distribute throughout the mass.

The resulting flour base is divided into two parts. One of them is placed in the refrigerator and the other in the freezer.

While the dough hardens, prepare the filling. Citruses are peeled from the peel, which has been doused with boiling water, and the bones are removed.

Pass the pulp and crusts through a meat grinder, add sugar and mix.

The dough (from the refrigerator) is rolled out into a thin sheet and placed on a greased baking sheet.

Next, spread the filling, and grate the frozen dough on top.

Bake for about half an hour at 180 degrees.