Hilda's Key Lime Pie

Ingredients

• 6 egg yolks, lightly beaten
• 1 - 15 oz. can Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk
• 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
• 1/2 pint whipping cream, whipped
• 6 egg whites, stiffly beaten with
• 6 Tbsp. sugar
• 2 baked pie shells, pastry or graham cracker

Method

1. 1

   Combine egg yolks and condensed milk.

2. 2

   Mix well.

3. 3

   Add lime juice and blend well.

4. 4

   Fold in whipped cream.

5. 5

   Turn into baked, cool pie shells.

6. 6

   Swirl meringue onto pie, spreading to edge of pie shell all around.

7. 7

   Bake in 300 degree oven until meringue is pale honey-colored.

8. 8

   Cool before cutting.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes from our hearth (1960) by N.C.) Advent Moravian Church (Winston-Salem, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HILDA'S KEY LIME PIE 6 egg yolks, lightly beaten 1 - 15 oz. can Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk 1/2 cup fresh lime juice 1/2 pint whipping cream, whipped MERINGUE : 6 egg whites, stiffly beaten with 6 Tbsp. sugar added 2 baked pie shells, pastry or graham cracker

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