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Heavenly Lemon Pie With Meringue Crust

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Servings: 8
Categories: Crust-Pie / Desserts / Pies & Pastries

Ingredients:
    -----meringue crust-----
4    egg whites
1  cup  sugar
1  teaspoon  lemon juice
    -----filling-----
4    eggs, separated
1/2  cup  sugar
1  large  lemon (grated peel & juice)
2  cups  whipping cream, whipped
1  tablespoon  powdered sugar

Directions:
Beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Gradually add 1 cup sugar, beating until stiff but not dry. Blend in 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Grease 9-inch pie pan generously. Spoon meringue mixture into pan and with tablespoon push mixture up around edges to form pie shell. Bake at 200F 2 hours. Cool. To make filling, beat egg yolks with 1/2 cup sugar, lemon peel and juice until light. Cook, stirring, in top of double boiler over boiling water until thickened. Remove from heat and cool thoroughly. Fold in half of whipped cream. Turn into meringue crust and refrigerate at least 2 hours to set. Fold powdered sugar into remaining whipped cream and spread over chilled pie. Created by: Bullock's department stores, Southern Calif. (C) 1992 The Los Angeles Times By "Lloyd A. Carver" <lloyd2@mindspring.com> on Jan 5, 1996


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