Park Lane Lemon Pie

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup minute tapioca
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon lemon rind
• 3 cups water
• 2 egg yolks slightly beaten
• 1 baked 9-inch pie shell

Method

1. 1

   Combine tapioca, sugar, salt, and water in a saucepan and mix well.

2. 2

   Bring mixture quickly to a full boil over direct heat, stirring vigorously.

3. 3

   Add butter, lemon juice, and rind.

4. 4

   Turn into pie shell.

5. 5

   Beat 2 egg whites until foamy; add 1/4 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating after each addition until blended.

6. 6

   Then beat until the mixture stands in peaks.

7. 7

   Pile lightly on pie and bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) for 15 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book (1948) by Central Methodist Church (Spencer, N.C.). Gertrude Bobbitt Circle, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

x/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, Vfe teaspoon nutmeg. Stir in l1/^ cup mash- ed sweet potatoes, la/2 cup canned milk, 1 beaten egg, 2 tablespoons dark molasses. Pour into deep 9-inch pie pan unbaked pastry. Bake 15 minutes in very hot oven 450 degrees. Reduce heat to slow 325 degrees and bake 25 minutes longer. Mrs. C. H. Thornton LEMON OR ORANGE PIE Juice and rind of 1 orange 1 cup sugar 3 eggs Beat yolks good and add V* of the sugar, rind and juice. Cook in double boiler until thick. Cool. Beat whites until stiff, add rest of sugar. Then fold in Yo of the whites to the cooked part. Put into cooked crust and add rest of the whites on top and brown. Good. Mrs. Hill C. Trexler LEMON PIE 6 eggs 1 lemon juice 2 lumps of butter, size of egg 1 ' 2 cups of sugar Stir butter and sugar together and add eggs, 2 whole and 4 yolks (leaving 4 whites for meringue). Add lemon juice and place in un- cooked pastry and cook. Then add meringue which has been made with the 4 remaining whites, beaten stiff with 4 large tablespoons of sugar. Brown in oven. Use a little grated rind in the pies. Mrs. John E. Ramsay 100 LEMON TARTS 4 eggs 2 tablespoons melted butter 2 cups sugar Grated rind of 1 lemon 2 tablespoons lemon juice Mix as usual and bake in muffin pans. Mrs. G. L. Burke PARK LANE LEMON PIE V2 cup minute tapioca 2 tablespoons butter 2/3 cup sugar 1/3 cup lemon juice V2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon lemon rind 3 cups water 1 baked 9-incb pie sbell 2 egg yolks slightly beaten

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