Lemon Meringue Pie

Shocked to find that after seven years, lemon meringue pie is still on on this recipe list! Ahem: 

Sweet shortcrust pastry (2 of flour, 1 of butter, a bit of sugar) - blind bake in the pie dish

50g cornflour

250ml lemon juice

125ml water

1 cup sugar

---> mix and cook up in a saucepan until thick. Take off heat, add 4 egg yolks and 60g butter. Cool completely. 

Whisk up the egg whites into a meringue with another cup of sugar. Assemble and brulee the top. 

There we go. 

Breakfast slice

in a loaf tin, with about
300g mix of oats, wheat germ, flour, mixed seeds, bran, etc
3 eggs
140ml oil
180g sugar

with a random mix of about a banana, a grated apple and a grated carrot, a dollop of molasses or treacle

Fruit cake spices

Takes a while to cook. Quite tasty. Serve with butter, possible jams.

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Pasta for Pasta Machine

Borden

This is Oma's signature cake (well one of them) that Flash particularly likes and enjoys making. It's traditionally strawberry but other fruits will serve the turn, as you can see. 

Start with the pound-cake base (180g each of sugar, butter and flour and three eggs) and make the tart casing. Cool. No I mean let it cool, although getting that far is cool figuratively speaking as well. 

Make custard: can do it with the old tin of condensed milk, 1.5 cups of milk, 1 egg, 2 tbsp custard powder, vanilla essence, cook for 3 mins (stir) 2 mins (stir) and 1 min in the microwave. You won't need all that amount of custard so you'll have about half left over. What a tragedy, what will you do with that, I wonder? 

Make the fruit: your probably-tinned-fruit-of-choice thickened up with cornflour and sweetened to taste. Has to be pretty firm. 

Serve with whipped cream. 

There is one trick that's hard to achieve. Ideally you'll let this set for a few hours before devouring. Otherwise it's a bit runny. 

Ingredients: 

Flour, butter, sugar (180g), 3 eggs, tin of condensed sweetened milk, 1.5 cups sugar, another egg, vanilla essence, tinned or other fruit, sugar to taste, cornflour. 

Need a tart tin. 

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Mr B (Breakfast/Snack Banana Slice)

Make a sponge in a slice tin, with 250g made up of flour, raw oats, and desiccated coconut and baking powder. Three eggs, 150g melted butter, vanilla essence. Mix, into lined slice tin, bake at 170c. When done, make a syrup in the microwave from a good dollop of golden syrup and a slosh of orange flower water. Spoon on top of the slice. Cool, cut into two layers. Lightly spoon cream over the base and layer with banana slices, replace top, dust with icing sugar. Rather tasty.