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Heavenly Lemon Pie With Meringue Crust

Heavenly Lemon Pie With Meringue Crust is a pies recipe made with Egg Whites, Sugar, T Lemon Juice, Eggs, and Lg Lemon. Serves 8. Save it, add the ingredients to your shopping list, and cook it tonight.

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Ingredients

• 4
• 1 cup
• 1
• 4
• 1/2 cup
• 1
• 2 cup
• 1 tbsp

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Cup sugar, beating until stiff but not dry.

2. 2

   Blend in 1 teaspoon lemon juice.

3. 3

   Grease 9-inch pie pan generously.

4. 4

   Spoon meringue mixture into pan and with tablespoon push mixture up around edges to form pie shell.

5. 5

   Bake at 200F 2 hours.

6. 6

   Cool.

7. 7

   To make filling, beat egg yolks with 1/2 cup sugar, lemon peel and juice until light.

8. 8

   Cook, stirring, in top of double boiler over boiling water until thickened.

9. 9

   Remove from heat and cool thoroughly.

10. 10

    Fold in half of whipped cream.

11. 11

    Turn into meringue crust and refrigerate at least 2 hours to set.

12. 12

    Fold powdered sugar into remaining whipped cream and spread over chilled pie.