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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> UK >> Scottish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. | 2. Lightly butter a flan pan. | 3. For the pastry: Sift the flour into a large bowl and add the butter. | 4. With your fingers rub the butter and flour together until mixture is fine and crumbly. | 5. Stir in sugar. | 6. Add the yolk and ice water. | 7. Mix to a soft dough and press into a ball. | 8. Roll pastry between two sheets of plastic wrap. | 9. Remove plastic and line the bottom and sides of flan pan with pastry. | 10. Trim edges. | 11. Cover with plastic wrap and place in fridge to chill for 20 minutes. | 12. Cut a piece of parchment paper and line bottom of pastry. | 13. Fill with pie weights, beans or rice. | 14. Bake for 35 minutes. | 15. Remove from oven, discard paper and the beans or rice if using. | 16. Set flan pan aside. | 17. To make Filling: Place sugar and flour in a heavy based medium pan. | 18. Make a well in the center. | 19. Using a whisk add the milk slowly, whisking to a smooth paste. | 20. Add butter. | 21. Stir with the whisk over low heat for about 7-8 minutes or until the mixture boils and thickens. | 22. Remove from heat. | 23. Whisking quickly add the yolk and vanilla extract until smooth. | 24. Spread filling into precooked pastry. | 25. Smooth out top. | 26. For the Meringue: Place the egg whites in a cold, dry glass bowl. | 27. With Cold beaters beat whites until firm peaks form. | 28. Slowly add the sugar while beating until mixture is thick and glossy and the sugar is dissolved. | 29. Spoon meringue over filling and swirl into peaks. | 30. Bake for 20 minutes or until meringue is a light golden brown. | 31. Remove and cool on a wire rack. | 32. Serve warm or cold. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
white flour	2	cups		1156.56	253.2108	18.802	4.4872
butter	4	ounces		256.5	11.7855	8.0145	21.6
sugar	2	tablespoons	powdered	62.24	15.9632	0.0	0.0
egg yolk	1			54.74	0.6103	2.6962	4.5118
ice water	1	tablespoon		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
brown sugar	3/4	cup		627.0	161.8485	0.198	0.0
flour	1/3	cup		1156.56	253.2108	18.802	4.4872
milk	1	cup		148.84	11.6632	7.686	7.9788
butter	3	tablespoons		256.5	11.7855	8.0145	21.6
vanilla extract	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
egg yolk	1			54.74	0.6103	2.6962	4.5118
egg white	2			34.32	0.4818	7.194	0.1122
icing sugar	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.