Lemon Cream Pie

Ingredients

• one tea-cupful of powdered sugar
• one table-spoonful of butter
• one egg
• the juice of one lemon
• the grated rind of one lemon
• one tea-cupful of boiling water
• one table-spoonful of corn starch

Method

1. 1

   Stir the corn starch into the boiling water, cream the butter and sugar, and pour over them the hot mixture.

2. 2

   When quite cold, add the lemon and the beaten egg.

3. 3

   Bake without a top crust.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LEMON CREAM PIE. Take one tea-cupful of powdered sugar, one table-spoonful of butter, one egg, the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one tea-cupful of boiling water, and one table-spoonful of corn starch

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