Basque Cake(Gateau Basque) - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1-1/2 C sifted flour
    1/2 C sugar
    Pinch of salt
    1/2 C softened butter
    2 egg yolks
    1 tsp baking powder
    1 lemon peel, grated
    Pastry cream flavored with rum or black cherry preserves (recipe follows)
    1 beaten egg
Preparation
    Put the flour in a large bowl.
    Make a hole in middle and place sugar, salt, butter, egg yolks, baking powder and lemon peel into the hole.
    Use your hands to work everything together into a dough.

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