Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe

Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe

Ingredients:

1 pie crust (9 inch); baked
1.5 c of white sugar
3 pcs of yolks of eggs; beaten slightly
1/3 c plus a Tbsp of cornstarch
2 tsps of lemon zest; grated
1.5 c of water
1/2 c of juice (lemon)
3 Tbsps of butter or margarine
2 small drops of food color (yellow)
1/2 tsp of vanilla flavor extract
3 pcs of whites of egg
1/4 tsp of cream-of-tartar
6 Tbsps of white sugar

Instructions:

Preheat the oven (400 deg F). Combine cornstarch and sugar in a 1.5-quart saucepan. Gradually stir water in.

Cook on medium stove heat, constantly stirring ’til mixture boils and thickens. Boil then stir for 1 min. Gradually stir 1/2 of mixture into the yolks.

Next, blend in hot mix in the saucepan and boil; stir for 1 min. Remove pan from the heat. Then, stir lemon zest and juice, food color and margarine in. Pour onto pie crust.

For the meringue, beat whites w/ cream-of-tartar ’til foamy and beat sugar in, a Tbsp at each time. Beat continuously ’til glossy and stiff. Make sure not to under-beat. Then, beat vanilla in.

Carefully spread meringue onto filling, sealing edges of the crust w/ meringue. Bake for 10 mins ’til delicately brown. Take out from oven and cool.

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