Lemon Pie

Ingredients

• Eggs, yolks of five
• Sugar, 3 cups
• Butter, piece the size of an egg
• Water 3 cups
• Corn starch, 3 tablespoons
• Lemons, 3

Method

1. 1

   Grate the yellow part off the lemons, then the juice.

2. 2

   Dissolve the corn starch in water.

3. 3

   Mix all together and cook in a double boiler until thick.

4. 4

   Make meringue of the whites of eggs and add one tablespoonful of sugar to each white.

5. 5

   Bake pastry first.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Granite City cook book (1900) by Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church (Mount Airy, N.C.), page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LEMON PIE. Eggs, yolks of five, Sugar, 3 cups, Butter, piece the size of an egg, Water 3 cups, Corn starch, 3 tablespoons Lemons, 3

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