The weather has been really nice and warm lately and it always makes me feel like drinking lemon juice or a yummy lime cordial with a bit of Angusturo bitter.
And thinking about lime also made me want to make this pie. Something I have never made before so it doesn't look perfect but it tasted absolutely great!
Here is what you need:
a pie shape, baking beans or peas,
powdered sugar, a scale, flour, butter, eggs,
lemons, salt, sugar, a scraper for zest
You can converse the metric
here.
First we make the dough:
150g flour
60g butter
50g sugar
1 egg
1 pinch of salt
Put the flour through a sieve.
Add the butter, the sugar, the salt and the egg.
Mix the dough with your hands.
Wrap it in a piece of plastic and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
For the filling you need:
3 lemons
3 eggs
150g powdered sugar
30g butter
Take off the zest of the lemons and squeeze out the juice.
Add the butter to a pan and let it melt on
a low fire and add the lemon juice.
Add the zest, the powdered sugar and the eggs.
Whisk permanently until the mixture is thick.
Don't let it boil or your eggs will look grumpy.
It took me about 15 minutes to whisk it so be patient.
Roll out the dough on a flowered surface.
Butter your pie shape or use baking paper.
Note: I used the wrong shape as I could not get the pie out.
Better use one which is straight on the bottom.
Place the dough in the mould.
Oops, does look like the dough wasn't rolled out well enough.
Blind bake your pie dough with beans or peas.
The oven needs to be preheated onto 160°C and put it in there for 15 minutes.
Then add the filling in the blind baked dough.
Put it in the oven for 15 more minutes on 130°C.
For the merengue you need:
3 egg whites
150g powdered sugar
Whisk the egg whites firmly and slowly add the powdered sugar.
Spread out the merengue over the pie.
Place it under the grill for minutes.
I've learned I should not make a tutorial on a first attempt as there are a few things I would do different now. I would use a different pie shape so I could at least show you a pretty pic of when the pie is placed on a plate. But, it's all gone now and it tasted delicious. :)
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I know that lots of you might find this extremely weird: sandwiches with butter and chocolate sprinkles for breakfast. It's very common in Belgium to put chocolate sprinkles on bread and you can't make me any happier in the morning! 
Fresh, white bread with a crunchy crust, richly buttered and pure, chocolate sprinkles... BLISS!
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Feel like photo challenging me? 
You can use ready made applesauce or make some yourself.
Then I mash it with a fork and leave it to cool down.
Cut up the apricots and poor some hot water over the raisins to become softer.
Chuck all the ingredients in the bowl.
Stir the mixture.
Place a baking sheet in a baking tray.
Put the dough in the tray and bake it for 30 minutes at 180°C.
Take it out of the baking pan.
Slice it up, let 'em cool down and put 'em in a container.
I hardly ever feel guilty when eating these! :)
Add the butter, the sugar, the salt and the egg.
Mix the dough with your hands.
Wrap it in a piece of plastic and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
For the filling you need:
Add the zest, the powdered sugar and the eggs.
Roll out the dough on a flowered surface.
Butter your pie shape or use baking paper.
Place the dough in the mould.
Blind bake your pie dough with beans or peas.
Then add the filling in the blind baked dough.
For the merengue you need:
Spread out the merengue over the pie.
Place it under the grill for minutes.
I've learned I should not make a tutorial on a first attempt as there are a few things I would do different now. I would use a different pie shape so I could at least show you a pretty pic of when the pie is placed on a plate. But, it's all gone now and it tasted delicious. :)
Poor some hot water over the raisins and let them 
Peel the apples and pears and chop 'em up in small pieces.
Squeeze the water out of the raisins and put them on top of the apples/pears.
Cut the dried apricots in little pieces and add them to the dish.
Chop up some walnuts and add 80% of them to the dish and put 20% in bowl.
Chop up some almonds and add 80% of them to the dish and put 20% in bowl.
This is how it should look.
Mix all the fruit & nuts in the baking dish with a spoon.
Add the sugar to the chopped up nuts/almonds.
Add the flour to the chopped up nuts/almonds.
Add the melted butter to the chopped up nuts/almonds.
Mix it all up with a spoon or your hands. It should crumble a bit. 
Crumble the dough over the dish with mixed up fruit.
It should look like this:
Put the crumble in a preheated oven for 40 à 45 minutes at 180°C.
Serve hot with icecream on the side.
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