Key Lime Pie

7 ingredients
18 steps

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 1/2 c. lime juice
  • 1 can condensed milk
  • 6 Tbsp. sugar
  • pinch of salt
  • 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
  • 1 (9-inch) baked pie shell or graham cracker shell

Directions

  1. 1
    Beat egg yolks until lemon colored.
  2. 2
    Blend in condensed milk. Slowly add lime juice and salt and mix well.
  3. 3
    Add cream of
  4. 4
    tartar to egg
  5. 5
    whites
  6. 6
    and
  7. 7
    beat
  8. 8
    until
  9. 9
    foamy.
  10. 10
    Continue beating, adding sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time until egg whites peak.
  11. 11
    Fold 6 tablespoons of the meringue into the pie filling mixture.
  12. 12
    Pour into a 9-inch baked pie shell or graham cracker shell.
  13. 13
    Top with remaining
  14. 14
    meringue
  15. 15
    and
  16. 16
    bake
  17. 17
    until
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    golden brown at 425°. Cool.

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