St Clement’s pie

St Clement’s pie

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Prep: 1 hr Cook: 35 mins Plus cooling and chilling

Easy

Cuts into 8-10 slices

A very British version of Key lime pie - an indulgent, creamy tart with tangy oranges and lemons

Nutrition and extra info

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal647
  • fat27g
  • saturates15g
  • carbs87g
  • sugars63g
  • fibre1g
  • protein12g
  • salt1.1g
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Ingredients

    For the crust

    • 250g light digestive biscuit
    • 100g cornflake
    • 85g butter, melted
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    • 140g caster sugar

    For the filling

    • 1 large egg, plus 4 large egg yolks
    • 397g can light condensed milk
    • zest and juice 3 lemons
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    • zest and juice 2 oranges
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    For the topping

    • 150ml pot extra-thick double cream
    • 100g 0% fat Greek yogurt
    • 4 tbsp icing sugar
    • more lemon and orange zest, to decorate
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    Method

    1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Sit a fluted 20cm round loose-bottomed tin (about 5cm deep, or a slightly shallower 22cm tin) on a baking sheet. Break the biscuits into a big bowl, or double-bag them in food bags, and bash to big crumbs with the end of a rolling pin or small saucepan. Add the cornflakes and bash a bit more to crumbs. Mix with the melted butter and sugar and press into the base and sides of the tin. Bake for 15 mins, then remove and reduce oven temperature to 160C/140C fan/gas 3.

    2. Whisk egg and yolks in a big bowl until pale and frothy. Whisk in the condensed milk, followed by the zests and juices. Pour in the tin and bake for 20 mins. Cool in the tin, then chill for at least 5 hrs, or overnight.

    3. Whip the cream, yogurt and icing sugar together. Dollop on the pie and scatter with zest to serve.

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    emilycleaver
    14th Nov, 2015
    I wish I had read the comments before starting this recipe - leave out the cornflakes! As has been said by others, the base mixture is a disaster as written here. There's far too much of it (it completely filled my tin with enough left over to line another tin) and there was clearly not enough butter to bind it together. I persevered, but when it came out of the oven it was obviously too crumbly and dry to ever come out of the tin without disintegrating. I started over again, remaking it without the cornflakes, reducing the amount of sugar to about 70g and increasing the butter a little until the mixture felt moist enough.
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    patti01
    31st Dec, 2013
    Have not tasted this pie yet as it's still in the oven after modification. Having baked the biscuit base and mixed the filling it was obvious that there was far too much biscuit leaving no room for the topping. I wish I had read the reviews first and then I wouldn't have wasted 125g of biscuits. Perhaps the recipe should be changed?
    amywalsh1985
    21st Mar, 2013
    5.05
    Absolutely lovely, and quite easy too. After reading comments I didn't use the cornflakes and I only put a small bit of sugar in to the base. I didn't find that I really had too much base though which is weird (as everyone else seems to say that), maybe just a bit spare. I would definitley make this again.
    veacoker
    24th Jan, 2013
    Not tried this yet but agree that I would use gingernuts for the base. With the extra egg yolks it would be a good dessert to make at the same time as a meringue based receipe.
    derekplayer
    22nd Nov, 2012
    4.05
    I cheated and bought a base ready done - but the filling and topping was tasty !
    clarablackman
    11th Jun, 2012
    3.05
    Forgot to rate.
    clarablackman
    11th Jun, 2012
    3.05
    I liked the cornflake base but it does go soggy if you aren't going to eat all of the dessert in one sitting. The sugar in the base was odd and I think I will leave out next time. A nice if not calorific treat.
    cath79
    5th May, 2012
    5.05
    Loved this recipe. Looked and tasted great.
    thecookers
    29th Apr, 2012
    5.05
    So easy to make, one word - Delicious! Don't worry if your base is larger than the recipe, mine was and there was plenty of base mixture you don't need to try and make more.
    katvic
    19th Apr, 2012
    3.05
    far too sweet for me

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    steph_foster
    22nd Apr, 2015
    I finished this yesterday and have a question...PLEASE HELP ME! When baking the filling, I did the 20 minutes as said. Luckily I had an experienced cook helping me because after that 20 mins it was still really runny, and to make it cooked in the center we had to cook it for 45 MINUTES! I haven't read that anyone else has this problem how can that be?!?!
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    goodfoodteam
    12th May, 2015
    Hi steph_foster, thanks for getting in touch. The filling only needs a short cooking time as the acid in the citrus fruits will help to set the condensed milk in the filling, like a posset, once chilled. 
    pisteuomen
    15th Apr, 2017
    As others have said, omit the cornflakes from the recipe; I also omitted the sugar and made just a plain biscuit base. I baked it for 10 minutes in the oven. Whilst it was baking, I whisked my remaining egg whites until foamy, then took the base out of the oven and liberally egg-washed the biscuit base and returned it to the oven for 7 minutes until the egg wash was cooked. This meant that it made a waterproof seal before I poured the filling in - voilà, no soggy base as others have said that they had if not eaten straight away.
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