Pie with red currant

Sand cake with red currant and meringue.

Ingredients

• Dough:
• 400 g flour
• 200 g sugar
• 1/2 pack baking powder
• 4 yolks
• 200 g butter (margarine)
• 1 pack of vanilla
• Besides:
• 500 g currants (can be replaced with any other berry)
• 4 egg whites
• 150 g sugar
• 200 g ground almonds
• Form 26 cm

Directions

1. Beat softened butter with sugar, egg yolks and vanilla. Add flour and baking powder. Knead the dough. Refrigerate the dough for half an hour.
2. Put the dough into the form, make small sides. Prick the crust with a fork.
3. Cover the cake with parchment and pour peas for baking. Bake 15 min. at a temperature of 180 degrees. Remove the paper with the peas and bake for another 5-10 minutes. until ruddy.
4. Beat egg whites with sugar for a long time, until very dense thick mass. Set aside about a third.
5. Mix proteins with almonds (a third set aside for sprinkling) and berries.
6. Sprinkle the cake with the remaining almonds.
7. Put the protein mass with berries on top. And cover with reserved proteins.
8. Bake until soft creamy (10-20 minutes).