Old Fashioned Lemon Pie

By Gloleigh

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 1/2 cup butter, or margarine
• 2 eggs
• 6 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 to 2 teaspoons lemon rind, grated
• 1 pie shell
• MERINGUE
• 2 egg whites
• 4 tablespoons sugar

Preparation

Step 1

Cream butter and sugar together in top of double boiler.
Add whole eggs, egg yolks and lemon juice; mix thoroughly.
Place over hot (not boiling) water, stirring constantly, cook until thick.
Stir in lemon rind. Chill; pour into cooled pie shell.
Top with meringue; bake in hot ( 400 F.) oven about 7 minutes or until meringue peaks are golden brown.



MERINGUE



beat egg whites until frothy throughout. Gradually beat in sugar, a little at a time.
Continue beating intil mixture is stiff enough to hold peaks that do not curl
when beater is slowly withdrawn and inverted.