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----To make the pastry----.
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If you have a food processor, put all the ingredients for the pastry into the bowl and process until the mixture is like fine breadcrumbs.
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If you are making the pastry by hand, put the flour and icing sugar together in a bowl.
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Rub in the butter with your fingertips until you have a crumb-like mixture.
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Pat the mixture around the sides and bottom of an 8o flan dish.
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Put the flan in the refrigerator for at least half an hour.
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Bake in moderate oven- (350F/180C/Gas Mark 4)- for about 20 minutes, or until the pastry is golden brown.
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----To make the filling----.
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Put the orange rinds in a large bowl.
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Beat the eggs in a jug.
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Add the butter and sugar to the orange rind, and sieve in the beaten eggs.
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Mix all together and rest the bowl over a saucepan of simmering water.
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Stir until the butter has melted and the sugar dissolved, and then take the bowl off the heat.
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Stir the orange juice into the buttery mixture.
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DO NOT be tempted to add the juice along with the rind at the previous stage- it just doesn't work!
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Pour the mixture of butter, sugar, eggs, orange rind and juice into the baked flan case, and carefully put the flan back in the oven.
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Bake at 350F/180C/Gas Mark 4 for fifteen minutes, or until the filling is just set to touch.
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Take out of the oven and serve either warm or cool.
