Ingredients
- 1 9" Sweet pie crust baked
- 150 grams sugar, caster
- 3 ½ tablespoons cornstarch
- 600 milliliters milk
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon lime zest
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 75 milliliters lime juice
- Meringue
- 4 egg white
- ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
- 100 grams sugar, caster
- 1 ½ teaspoons lime juice
Directions
1. Make pie crust and bake. |
2. Mix sugar and cornstarch in bowl. Add remaining ingredients, except zest, and whip until blended. Pour into a medium saucepan. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture boils and becomes thick to parting of the waves consistency. Remove from heat, strain, then add zest and cool in cold water bath. Pour cooled filling into pie shell. |
3. Preheat oven to 350*F/175*C/GM 4. |
4. Beat egg whites and cream fo tartar until soft peaks form. Add one tablespoon of sugar at a time. Beat until stiff. Beat in lime juice. Swirl meringue onto pie, spreading to edges and sealing pie. Bake 12 to 15 minutes until meringue is browned. Cool pie. Chill before cutting. |
 Notes:Original serves 6.Serving Ideas:Original serves 6. |
Categories
DessertsPuddings, tarts/piesFruit
DessertsPuddings, tarts/piesFruit
Keywords
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tarts/piesFruit DessertsPuddings
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