Favorite lemon pie
1 Pie
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | slices | Bread; approximately |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| 3 | Egg yolks; slightly beaten | |
| 1 | large | Lemon; juice of |
| 1 | tablespoon | Butter |
| 1 | Pie shell; 9\", baked | |
| 3 | Egg whites | |
| 3 | tablespoons | Sugar |
Directions
Cut crusts from bread slices. Dip slices in bowl of water to soften; squeeze out water. Use enough bread to make 1 cup, but do not pack too tighlty. Put bread, sugar, egg yolks, lemon juice and butter in top of double boiler. Cook until mixture thickens; then spoon into pie shell.
Beat egg whites until frothy; gradually add sugar, and continue beating until mixture forms peaks. Spread meringue over filling.
Bake at 350 degrees about 20 minutes or until meringue is brown.
SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, sometime in 1974. Typed for you by Nancy Coleman.