Recipe book: Lemon Meringue Pie

Today I felt like baking, and this time I wanted to try something completely different. Usually I go for the easy recipes such as cupcakes, brownies etc. I have tried macaroons and of course made many cakes, but now it was time for something completely unlike.
I wasn't after anything too sweet, so I looked up some lemony recipes and came across a lemon meringue pie. It didn't seem to be very hard to make either, but looked really pretty.

I took the recipe from a Finnish blog Kinuskikissa.

This is what you need...

Crust:

• Whisk together 3 ¼ dl flour and 2 tbsp sugar 
• Add 175 g butter and pick to crumble
• Pour ½ dl water and mix fast
• Press into a pieplate and bake for 15 min in 200 °C

Filling

• Combine 2¼ dl sugar and 4 tbsp of flour into a kettle
• Measure 1¾ dl of water and 1dl of lemon juice (+lemon zest)
• Stir together adding 5 egg yolks and 50 g of butter until bubbly
• Immediately pour over the crust

Meringue

• Whip 5 egg whites into a hard foam
• Add 1¼ dl of sugar and keep whisking
• Extrude on top of the cake

• Bake for another 5 min

...and this is what you get

My try was ok I think. The crust was not cooked completely trough, maybe I had a smaller pie plate or something. Also the meringue did not turn out the best. Should have kept it lower and a little bit longer in the oven. The overall outcome was pretty good, I even made a few little meringue buttons from the leftovers to be used later. Now I will go and make myself a cup of tea and take another piece of this yumminess ;-)