Recipe - Butter Pastry Tried And True

1 One half cup Unsifted Flour
3 tablespoon Sugar
One fourth teaspoon Lemon Peel; Grated
One fourth cup Butter
2 Whole Egg Yolks

1. Combine flour, sugar and lemon peel.

2. Cut butter into chunks; add to flour mixture.

3. Rub mixture with fingers until butter lumps are no longer longer
distinguishable.

4. Add egg yolks; work well until it holds a smooth, noncrumbly ball.

5. Press evenly over bottom and up the sides of a 9" pie pan; flute top
edge.

6. Bake at 300 degrees for 15 minutes.

7. Cool and fill.

This buttery crust requires no rolling. Just press it in the pan. So good
with lemon meringue or fruit fillings.

Recipe by: diane@keyway.net

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 227 by "Diane Geary"
diane@keyway.net on Nov 8, 1997