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- From: "Ben A. Fairbank" <ben@lonestar.utsa.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Lemon Meringue Pie
- Message-ID: <34ofq7$mu8@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 04:18:07 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- Lemon Meringue Pie
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- This recipe, from my father's typed recipe book, is identified only as
- coming from "The Iridor School," and no date is given. It is probably
- >from the late thirties or early forties. If someone can tell me about
- the Iridor school, I'd be interested in hearing. This makes a pie with a
- very pronounced flavor -- I prefer it to the more common laid back
- versions. [Get your itchy fingers off that edit key, Stephanie!! ;-) ]
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- Make and bake a pie shell.
-
- Lemon Filling
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- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 cups boiling water
- 4 Tbsp cornstarch
- 4 Tbsp flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 4 egg yolks, beaten lightly
- juice of four lemons
- 1 Tbsp butter
-
- Mix cornstarch, flour, sugar, salt. Add boiling water, stirring
- constantly, and cook until transparent. Add lemon juice and continue
- cooking until thick. Put in double boiler. Add beaten egg yolks and
- butter. Cook for two minutes, stirring constantly. Fill the pie shell.
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- Meringue
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- 4 egg whites
- 1 cup sugar
-
- Beat egg whites until stiff, but not dry. Add half the sugar, and beat
- until stiff. Fold in balance of sugar. Pipe on to pie and brown
- slightly in a 500 degree oven. Watch carefully.
-
- The Iridor School
-
- As noted above, expect a pie in which strong flavors predominate. Not
- only is the lemon custard very vigorous, the meringue is sweeter than
- most, but it goes well with the lemon flavor.
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- Ben Fairbank
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