Lemon Meringue Pie

[muck_a_luck]

Almost forgot. Was trying to convince uisgich that she needed a better lemon meringue pie recipe. So, here's the only one worth eating.

This makes a very interesting lemon tart, if you leave off the meringue, and prepare otherwise as described

Lemon Meringue Pie

1 vanilla wafer crust (see below)

½ cup lemon juice (1 lemon)
1 t grated lemon rind (I use ¼ t lemon extract)
1 ½ c (15 oz can) Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk (low fat works great)
2 eggs, separated
¼ t cream of tartar
4 T sugar

Combine lemon juice and lemon rind or lemon extract. Gradually stir in sweetened condensed milk. Add egg yolks and stir until well blended. Pour into chilled pie shell. Add cream of tartar to egg whites. Beat until stiff enough to hold a peak. Add sugar gradually, beating until stiff but not dry. Pile light on the pie filling.

Bake at 325 until lightly browned – about 15 minutes.


Vanilla Wafer Crust

1/3 c butter
1 ½ c finely crushed vanilla wafers
16 whole wafers

Melt butter in glass pie plate. Mix in crumbs. When crumbs thoroughly moistened with butter, press firmly and evenly into the bottom of the plate. Arrange the 16 whole wafers around the edge to form the sides of the crust.

Comments

[milochka.livejournal.com]

OMG, thank you thank you thank you for this recipe! Lemon meringue pie is my FAVOURITE dessert of all time. Has been since childhood, in fact.

Never made it with condensed milk before. I guess it makes more of a 'creamy' and denser filling than the regular cornstarch base?

Am gonna try this recipe on the weekend. *salivates in anticipation*

Cornstarch. Ick.

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

You will never go back to that nasty cornstarch base after you try this pie. Not to mention that it is the definition of "easy as pie"...

Grrr. Now I want some.

And excellent icon, btw.