| Recipe Name: Chocolate Meringue Pie |
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| Category: Desserts |
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Serves |
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2 |
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Ingredients: |
| For Short crust pastry |
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| Refined flour |
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50 g |
| Butter |
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25 g |
| Salt |
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a pinch |
| Castor sugar |
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1/2 tsp |
| Cold water |
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to mix |
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| For Filling |
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| Milk |
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125 ml |
| Sugar |
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30 g |
| Cocoa |
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1 1/2 t |
| Corn flour |
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2 T |
| Vanilla essence |
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few drops |
| Castor sugar |
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10 g (2 t) |
| Egg |
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1 1/2 |
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Method: |
- To make the short crust pastry, sieve flour, salt and sugar if used.
- Rub in the butter gently using finger tips till the mixture resembles fine bread crumbs. Use minimum handling. (Rub quickly and lightly, lifting mixture, up all the time to incorporate as much cool air as possible.)
- Add cold water, sprinkling it evenly over the mixture.
- Mix with a palette knife or a round blade kitchen knife cutting through and pressing together (a knife keeps the pastry cool).
- Put down the knife and bind the mixture into a smooth dough, with the hand.
- Place the dough on a lightly floured board or table top
- Flour the rolling pin lightly and roll the pastry in one direction only without pressing or stretching it.
- Roll out the pastry 1/4" thick and cut into four rounds using a biscuit cutter. Grease a tart tray and dust with flour. Line it with the pastry rounds.
- Bake the pastry blind in a hot oven (425 degree F to 450 degree F) for about 10 minutes to set the bottom.
- Roll out the pastry on a floured board and line a pyrex dish with it. Trim the edges and prick the pastry.
- Line the pastry with butter paper and for baking blind, put some beans (Rajmah).
- Bake for approximately 25 minutes in hot oven (400 F)
- Lift the beans out of the case and remove butter paper.
- Separate the eggs into yolk and white.
- Mix milk, sugar, cocoa powder and corn flour and cook till the mixture is thick.
- Cool a little, add vanilla essence and well beaten egg yolks. Spread the mixture evenly over the baked pastry.
- Bake again for 10-15 minutes, till mixture is set.
- Beat the egg whites stiffly and fold in the castor sugar to make meringue.
- Spread meringue over the pie and bake further till meringue is light brown at the tips.
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Tags:
Chocolate Meringue Pie, pastry , mixture , knife , bake , flour , sugar , line , lightly , butter , cool , roll , meringue , minutes , egg , beans , paper , add , tips , using , rub |
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