Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Award-winning Lemon Meringue Pie

Julia Drake   21/06/2020 05:02

Lemon Meringue Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lemon meringue pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Lemon Meringue Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Lemon Meringue Pie is something that I have loved my entire life.

This is a good, but fairly standard lemon meringue pie with a rich, tart filling, and fluffy meringue. I prefer lemon meringue pie recipes like this one that call for water, rather than recipes using milk. The best lemon meringue pie trick I learned (also from Shirley Corriher) is to add a gelled cornstarch and water mixture to the meringue.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon meringue pie using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Meringue Pie:
  1. Prepare 1 cup white sugar
  2. Take 2 TBS all-purpose flour
  3. Prepare 3 TBS cornstarch
  4. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
  5. Make ready 1 1/2 cups water
  6. Make ready 2 lemons, juiced and zested
  7. Prepare 2 TBS butter
  8. Get 4 egg yolks, beaten
  9. Get 1 (9-in) pie crust, baked
  10. Make ready 4 egg whites
  11. Make ready 6 TBS white sugar

Added additional lemon and raspberries to this classic and delicious lemon meringue pie, giving it a less-sweet and brighter flavor. Refrigerate the pie until the filling is completely. Lemon Meringue Pie Recipes Fluffy meringue over creamy sweet-tart lemon filling is a crowd-pleasing classic. Check out Food Network fans' favorite lemon meringue pies and choose a familiar dessert.

Instructions to make Lemon Meringue Pie:
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Make lemon filling: in a medium saucepan, whisk together 1 cup sugar, flour, cornstarch, and salt. Stir in water, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring frequently, until mixture comes to a boil.
  3. Stir in butter. Place egg yolks in a small bowl and gradually whisk in 1/2 of the hot sugar mixture. Whisk egg yolk mixture back into remaining sugar mixture. Bring to a boil and continue to cook while stirring constantly until thick. Remove from heat, pour mixture into baked pie shell.
  4. Make Meringue: in a large glass or metal bowl, whip egg whites until foamy. Add 6 TBS sugar gradually, and continue to whip until stiff peaks form. Spread meringue over pie, sealing the edges at the crust.
  5. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes, or until meringue is golden brown. Allow to cool. Store covered in refrigerator.

In a small bowl, combine flour and salt; cut in shortening until crumbly. Pour hot filling into cooled piecrust. Spread the meringue over the hot lemon pie filling; carefully seal all around the edge of the piecrust to prevent shrinkage. In medium bowl, combine milk, lemon juice and zest; blend in egg yolks. Meringue: Beat egg whites with cream of tartar until soft peaks form.

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