Old Fashioned Lemon Pie

9 ingredients
6 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 2/3 c. sugar
  • 1/8 tsp. salt
  • 6 Tbsp. cornstarch
  • 2 c. boiling water
  • 3 eggs, separated
  • 1 Tbsp. butter or oleo
  • juice of 2 large lemons
  • 2 Tbsp. grated lemon peel
  • 1 baked 9-inch pie shell

Directions

  1. 1
    Combine 1 1/4 cups sugar, salt and cornstarch in a medium saucepan.
  2. 2
    Add water and cook until thickened, stirring almost constantly, about 10 minutes.
  3. 3
    Stir some hot mixture into beaten egg yolks; return to saucepan and cook slowly 1 or 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
  4. 4
    Add butter, lemon juice and peel.
  5. 5
    Strain into pastry shell.
  6. 6
    Bake in preheated 400° oven 10 minutes.

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