Lemon Meringue Pie Recipes

Lemon Meringue Pie Recipes So Good Tasting You Won't Want To Eat Restaurant Pie Again

Grandma's old-fashioned lemon meringue pie recipes make the best-tasting pies imaginable. Why? Because these tangy lemon pies are topped with a scrumptious, baked meringue that is so good tasting it simply melts in your mouth.

I really love eating these pies, and I know you will too. But, I now have a problem: I no longer enjoy eating pie at restaurants. Their pies simply cannot match the exceptional taste of these amazing homemade pies.

Come on, indulge yourself. Try one of these delicious lemon meringue pie recipes and see how good they taste.

Lemon Meringue Pie

Rebecca, one of my regular site visitors, offers this suggestion to make perfect pies: After adding the 3 cups boiling water and bringing it to a boil, you should allow the mixture to become sufficiently thickened before removing it from the stove and putting it in baked crusts.

Juice of 2 lemons, 2 cups sugar, yolks of 3 eggs, 4 tablespoons flour, piece of butter. Stir all together with a little cold water. Add 3 cups boiling water and bring to a boil. Remove from stove and put in baked crusts. This will make 2 pies. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth. Add sugar and spread on top of pies.

Lemon Meringue Pie

1/2 cup sifted cake flour, 1-1/4 cups sugar, 1 cup boiling water, 1 to 3 cups milk, 3 egg yolks beaten with 1 egg white, 1/2 tablespoon butter, 2 lemons (1/4 cup juice), grated rind 1 lemon, 1 baked 9-inch pie shell, 4 tablespoons sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2 egg whites stiffly beaten.

Combine flour and water in top of double boiler. Add water, stirring constantly; then add milk. Cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Pour small amount of mixture over egg yolks, stirring vigorously. Return to double boiler, and continue cooking until mixture drops in thick sheets from spoon. Add butter, lemon juice, and rind. Cool and pour into pie shell. Fold sugar and salt in egg whites. Pile lightly on filling. Bake in slow oven (300°F) 12 minutes, or until delicate brown.

Line a deep pie plate with a rich puff paste, and bake a light brown. Remove from the oven until the filling is prepared. Take a large juicy lemon, grate the peel, and squeeze out every drop of juice. Now take the lemon and put it into a cup of boiling water to extract every particle of juice. Put the cup of water on to boil with the lemon juice and grated peel, and a cup of sugar; beat up the yolks of four eggs very light and add to this gradually the boiling lemon juice. Return to the kettle and boil. Then wet a teaspoonful of cornstarch with a very little cold water, and add also a teaspoonful of butter and when the boiling mixture has thickened remove from the fire and let it cool. Beat up the whites of the eggs to a very stiff froth, add half of the froth to the lemon mixture and reserve the other half for the top of the pie. Now bake the lemon cream in the baked pie crust.

Add a few tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and half a teaspoonful cream of tartar to the remaining beaten whites. If you desire to have the meringue "extra thick," add the whites of one or more eggs. When the pie is baked take from the oven just long enough to spread the meringue over the top, and set back for two or three minutes, leaving the oven door open just the least bit, so as not to have it brown too quickly.

Superior Deep Dish Lemon Pie Recipe

Take a deep dish, grate into it the outside of the rind of two lemons; add to that a cup and a half of white sugar, two heaping tablespoonfuls of unsifted flour, or one of cornstarch; stir it well together, then add the yolks of three well-beaten eggs, beat this thoroughly, then add the juice of the lemons, two cups of water and a piece of butter the size of a walnut. Set this on the fire in another dish containing boiling water and cook it until it thickens, and will dip up on the spoon like cold honey.

Remove it from the fire, and when cooled, pour it into a deep pie tin, lined with pastry; bake, and when done, have ready the whites, beaten stiff, with three small tablespoonfuls of sugar. Spread this over the top and return to the oven to set and brown slightly. This makes a deep, large-sized pie, and very superior. —Ebbitt House Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe, Washington

Orange Meringue Pie Recipe

If you don't have the lemons to make a lemon meringue pie recipe, try this delicious orange pie recipe instead. It makes a nice change from lemon when topped with a meringue, and it's an easy pie recipe to make.

Grate the rind of one and use the juice of two large oranges. Stir together a large cupful of sugar and a heaping tablespoonful of flour; add to this the well-beaten yolks of three eggs, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Reserve the whites for frosting. Turn this into a pie pan lined with pie paste and bake in a quick oven. When done so as to resemble a finely baked custard, spread on the top of it the beaten whites, which must be sweetened with two tablespoonfuls of sugar; spread evenly and return to the oven and brown slightly. The addition of the juice of half a lemon improves it, if convenient to have it.