Lemon Pie

Ingredients

• a cup each boiling water
• a cup each sugar
• grated rind and juice of one lemon
• well-beaten yolks of two eggs
• tablespoon corn-starch
• teaspoon butter

Method

1. 1

   Make a syrup of boiling water and sugar, add grated rind and juice of lemon, well-beaten yolks of eggs, corn-starch dissolved in a little cold water, and butter.

2. 2

   Cook till thick; then pour into a crust already baked, spread with meringue and brown in oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 419. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lemon-pie. — Make a syrup of a cup each boiling water and sugar, add grated rind and juice of one lemon, well-beaten yolks of two eggs, tablespoon corn-starch dissolved in a little cold water, and teaspoon butter. C<iok till thick ; then pour into a crust already baked, spread with a meringue and brown in oven. This makes one pie, but two pies can be made of one lemon by doubling the quan- tity of all the pther ingredients. Or for an Economical Lemon-pie, take one pint water, add the juice, grated rind and chopped pulp of one lemon ; wlien boiling, stir in half pint gugar and third of a pint flour, well mixed. (When corn-starch or flour is added to any liquid f « pastry; 489 withgk| dr^r sugar it Tvill not be lumpy). When partially dy pllVin pie-pan lined with Quaker Maste, cover with up- if milled thickened) ^ per crust and bfike. t'or*C^im>p«(i-jU#ion-pi6, grate rin^ and chop' pufp of three lemons, from which the white outside pith and seeds have been carefully taken ; this is very necessary where th^ wholo lemon is used as they impart a bitter flavor. Beat together yolks of four eggs, three cups sugar, half cup cold water, pinAi salt and table- spoon corn-starch, mixed smooth in pari of the water ; add the pre- pared lemon and well-frothed whites of eggs and bake with two crusts. For Eggleaa Lerruynrpiey mix tablespoon corn-starch smooth with little water, and stir in cup boiline water ; add juice and grated rind of a lemon, cup sugar, tablespoon outter and bake with one or two crusts as preferred. A raw pptato size of lemon, grated, may be stirred in the ooiling water instead of corn-starch. Or With Fruity take cup each sugar

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