Recipe for Lemon Pie
Pie Ingredients
- 3 tablespoonfuls flour
- 3 tablespoonfuls corn-starch
- 1 cupful sugar
- 2 cupfuls boiling water
- 2 egg yolks
- Juice and grated rind of 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoonful butter
- 1/4 teaspoonful salt
Meringue Ingredients
- 2 egg whites
- 2 tablespoonfuls powdered sugar
Directions
Mix the sugar, flour, and corn-starch, add the boiling water. Stir and cook on the back of the range for 15 minutes. Add the egg yolks and cook at simmering temperature, until the eggs thicken. Add the remaining ingredients. Cool and place in a baked crust. Cover with a meringue. Bake until the meringue is a light brown, i.e. at 300 degrees F., 10 to 15 minutes.
Note that the lemon is added to the mixture after cooking. Cooking a starchy material with a small amount of acid, dextrinizes the starch. Since dextrin has less thickening power than starch, the starch mixture would become thinner if cooked for some time with lemon.