Old Fashioned Lemon Meringue Pie
photo by startnover
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
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2-3 pies
ingredients
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Filling
- 4 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 4 1⁄2 cups water
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 1 1⁄2 cups cornstarch
- 1 cup cold water
- 1 1⁄2 cups lemon juice
- 10 large egg yolks
- 1⁄2 cup margarine
- pre-baked pie crust
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Meringue
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt (heaping)
- 10 large egg whites
directions
- Heat sugar, 4-1/2 c water, and salt to boiling.
- Meanwhile, stir 1 cup water and cornstarch together.
- Slowly add cornstarch mixture into boiling sugar water.
- Cook till thick and clear.
- Beat egg yolks and lemon juice together and slowly add to sugar mixture.
- Bring this up to a bubbly stage (1-2 min).
- Take off heat and add margarine, and stir.
- Leave it for a minute and come back to stir again, doing this every couple of minutes to allow margarine to melt and cool filling w/o allowing a skin to form. After margarine melts put a lid on the mixture till you're ready to pour into pie crusts.
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For Meringue:
- Beat salt and egg whites till frothy, then slowly add sugar.
- Beat till stiff peaks form when you raise the beaters.
- If you are making the meringue, add a spoonful of it to pie filling, pour filling into crusts, and then spread pie to crust edge.
- Peak it using a spoon.
- Bake in 325° oven till light brown on peaks.
- Cooking time will vary--just watch it.
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