World Flavors Cookbook

Torta della Nonna

Grandmother's tart — a double-crust pastry filled with lemon-scented custard and topped with pine nuts.

Cuisine: Italy

Ingredients

• For pastry: 300g flour, 150g butter, 100g sugar, 2 eggs
• For custard: 500ml milk, 4 egg yolks, 80g sugar, 40g flour, lemon zest
• 50g pine nuts
• Icing sugar to dust

Instructions

1. Make pastry: rub butter into flour and sugar, bind with eggs. Rest 30 minutes.
2. Make custard: whisk yolks and sugar, add flour, pour in hot milk. Cook until thick. Add lemon zest. Cool.
3. Line a tart tin with 2/3 of pastry.
4. Fill with cooled custard.
5. Cover with remaining pastry. Scatter pine nuts on top.
6. Bake at 180C for 40-45 minutes until golden.
7. Dust with icing sugar when cool.