Lemon Pie
Ingredients
- 1 lemon juice and grated yellow rind
- 1 cupful sugar
- 1 cupful boiling water
- 1 tablespoonful cornstarch, or 2 of flour
- 1 teaspoonful melted butter
- 2 yolks of eggs well beaten
Directions
Rub the cornstarch smooth in a little cold water, then add the cup of boiling water. Stir till it boils and cooks the cornstarch. Add the butter and sugar. Remove from the fire, and when partly cool, add the yolk of the eggs, the lemon juice and grated rind. Line a pie tin with crust. Fill with the mixture. Bake until the crust is done. Beat the white of the eggs to a stiff froth, with 2 tablespoonfuls sugar. Spread this over the top of the pie as a meringue. Return to the oven and brown slightly. This makes One pie. This recipe may be varied by using 1 egg only, stirring yolk and white together, inclosing the mixture between two crusts, and baking like an apple or other fruit pie.