Lemon Meringue Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon meringue pie. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Fresh lemon juice and lemon zest make this lemon meringue pie filling tart and lovely. And when it's poured into a waiting crust, topped with billows of meringue, and baked, it's downright dreamy. Lemon Meringue Pie: A Family Favorite.

Lemon Meringue Pie is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Lemon Meringue Pie is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon meringue pie using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Meringue Pie:
  1. Take 200 g shortcrust pastry (I make it with the addition of 1 oz caster sugar)
  2. Take 1 can condensed milk
  3. Take Grated rind and juice of 2 lemons
  4. Get 2 eggs, separated
  5. Make ready 100 g caster sugar

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Instructions to make Lemon Meringue Pie:
  1. Pre heat oven to 190 degrees c.
  2. Use the pastry to line an 8 inch flan/oven dish/tin
  3. Bake blind. This is important to ensure that the base of the pie ends up crisp and dry.
  4. Mix the tinned condensed milk with the lemon rind, juice and egg yolks until thoroughly blended.
  5. Pour into the baked flan case.
  6. Whisk the egg whites until stiff and whisk in half the sugar. Fold in the remaining sugar and pile on top of the filling.
  7. Return to oven and bake for 15-20 minutes, until the meringue is nicely coloured!
  8. N.b. Do not over bake the pastry when cooking blind. I find that 15 minutes with the grease proof and baking beans in then an additional 10 minutes after they are removed is just about right, before putting in the pie filling.

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