Torta della Nona

Ingredients:

For tart:

• 2 large eggs
• 500 g flour
• 200 g butter
• 160 g sugar
• 1 lemon zest

For pastry cream:

• 8 egg yorks
• 750 ml milk
• 225g sugar
• 1 lemon zest
• vanilla
• 60 g corn starch

For decoration:

• 50 g pine seeds
• sugar

Method:

1. Put the flour, sugar, butter and lemon zest in the mixer and mix. Add eggs and continue mix well. Transfer the dough in plastic foil and let them rest in fridge for 30 min.
2. Put the milk, vanilla and lemon zest in a pot and boiling.
3. Meanwhile, beat the egg yolks with sugar, then add corn starch.
4. Gradually add the milk in egg yolks and mix over medium heat, stirring until it begins to thicken.
5. Spread the dough on a 26 cm tray and pick it with a fork.
6. Put the pastry cream on tray, then cover with a new layer of dough. Pict it too with a fork, sprinkle pine seeds.
7. Bake on oven for 50′ at 160’C then 10′ at 180’C
8. Let the taste to cool and sprinkle with sugar.