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GOOSEBERRY AND VANILLA CUSTARD PIE

You can make the vanilla custard yourself or use shop-bought vanilla custard or powder mixed with milk.

Ingredients

  • Vegetarian
  • 100 grams butter
  • 150 ml icing sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 250 ml all-purpose flour
  • pinch of salt

filling:

  • shop-bought vanilla custard powder + milk or home-made vanilla custard
  • 300 ml gooseberries

decoration:

  • bunch of lemon balm leaves
  • lime zest

Method

  1. Preheat the oven at 200 C.
  2. Cream the butter and icing sugar until fluffy. Add egg, flour and salt and mix. Cover the mixture with cling film and let it stand in the fridge for a couple of hours before baking the pie.
  3. Roll the dough into a 25 cm pie dish with a rolling pin. Cover with grease proof paper and eg. dried peas. Bake for about 7 minutes, remove the peas and bake for another 7 minutes.
  4. Take from the oven and let cool.
  5. Fill the pie dish with the vanilla custard and halved gooseberries.
  6. Decorate with lemon balm leaves and lime zest.

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