Lemon and Meringue Pie Recipe

Ingredients 8 pieces

  • Dough
  • 3 dl wheat flour
  • 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
  • 150 g cold butter
  • 1 egg
  • Filling
  • 2 parts squeezed lemon
  • 1 3/4 dl powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch (maize)
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 1/2 tbsp grated lemon zest
  • 50 g cold butter
  • meringue Quilt
  • 3 egg whites
  • 3/4 dl powdered sugar

How to prepare

  • 60 minutes
  • Quickly mix flour, sugar and butter into a crumbly mass. Add the egg and mix together to form a dough. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap.
  • Leave to cool for about 1 hour.
  • Press out the dough into a mold with a removable edge, 24 inches in diameter. Chop the bottom with a fork. Leave to cool for at least 1 hour.
  • Heat the oven to 200 degrees. Bake pie shell in the middle of the oven for about 15 minutes.
  • Mix lemon juice, sugar, cornstarch, eggs and egg yolks in a saucepan. Slowly simmer with stirring until the cream thickens, it must not boil.
  • Pull the saucepan off the heat and mix in the lemon zest and butter, cut into small pieces. Stir until the butter melts. Let the cream cool.
  • Raise oven temperature to 250 degrees and grill.
  • Pour the lemon cream into the baked pie shell.
  • Beat the whites until hard foam. Add the sugar and whisk until the batter is shiny and chewy.
  • Spread or spread the meringue over the lemon cream.
  • Grate the pie in the middle of the oven until the meringue has a little color. Be careful not to burn it.

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