Lemon Meringue Pie

Ingredients

• 1} cups sugar
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1 lemon, grated rind and juice
• Yolks 3 eggs
• 1 cup cold water
• Few grains salt
• Whites 3 eggs
• 8 tablespoons powdered sugar
• 8 tablespoons powdered sugar

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar, flour, lemon rind, juice, and yolks.

2. 2

   Add cold water and salt, cook over hot water for thirty minutes.

3. 3

   For meringue, beat egg whites until stiff, add sugar gradually, and fold in vanilla.

4. 4

   Roll paste, fill with mixture, cover with meringue, and bake.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from What to Have for Dinner (1905) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LeMon MERINGUE PIE. a Family Dinners. 99 CREAM OF CELERY SOUP. (See p. 51, under Family Dinners, Menu No. XII.) BAKED OX JOINTS, Cut two ox tails at joints and parboil five mimutes. Wash thoroughly and sauté in butter with two sliced onions until well browned. Add one-third cup flour, three cups water, three cups canned tomatoes, one tea- spoon salt, and one-fourth teaspoon pepper. Turn into a deep earthen pudding dish, cover, and cook in a slow oven three hours. Remove ox tails, and strain sauce and return ox tails and sauce to oven to finish the cooking; then add one and one-half cups carrots, cut in strips and one cup turnips cut in small cubes, parboiled in boiling salted water five minutes. Bake until vegetables are soft. POTATO CROQUETTES. 2 cups hot riced potatoes 4 teaspoon onion juice 4 tablespoons butter Yolks of 2 eggs $ teaspoon salt 4 tablespoon finely chopped 4 teaspoon pepper parsley Few grains cayenne > Mix ingredients in order given and beat thoroughly. Shape, dip in crumbs, egg and crumbs again. Fry in deep fat, and drain on brown paper. LETTUCE AND CUCUMBER SALAD. Wash, drain and dry one head lettuce. Arrange in salad bowl as near its original shape as possible. Pare and slice one cucumber and place slices between lettuce leaves. Pour over French Dressing. 100 What to Have for Dinner. LEMON FILLING. 1} cups sugar 1 lemon, grated rind and 3 tablespoons flour juice Yolks 3 eggs 1 cup cold water Few grains salt Mix sugar, flour, lemon rind and juice and yolks of eggs. Add cold water and salt and cook thirty minutes over hot water and cool. _ MERINGUE. Whites 3 eggs

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