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Lemon Pie

From La cuisine creole, 1885
Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 77. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LEMON PIB. Grate the rind and express the juice of three lemons ; rub together a cup and a half of powdered sugar and three tablespoonf uls of butter ; beat up the yolks of four eggs, and add to the butter and sugar, lastly the lemon ; bake on a rich puflf paste without an upper crust. While the pie is baking beat up the whites of the four eggs

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