Real heavenly lemon pie with meringue crust

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Preparation Time:

20 Min

Serves:

Difficulty:

Moderate

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Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

-----------------------MERINGUE CRUST----------------------------
4 Egg whites
1 c Sugar
1 ts Lemon juice

--------------------------FILLING-------------------------------
4 Eggs; separated
1/2 c Sugar
1 lg Lemon (grated peel juice)
2 c Whipping cream, whipped
1 tb Powdered sugar

Beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Gradually add 1 cup sugar,
beating until stiff but not dry. Blend in 1 teaspoon lemon juice.
Grease 9-inch pie pan generously. Spoon meringue mixture into pan and
with tablespoon push mixture up around edges to form pie shell. Bake
at 200F 2 hours. Cool.

To make filling, beat egg yolks with 1/2 cup sugar, lemon peel and
juice until light. Cook, stirring, in top of double boiler over
boiling water until thickened. Remove from heat and cool thoroughly.
Fold in half of whipped cream. Turn into meringue crust and
refrigerate at least 2 hours to set. Fold powdered sugar into
remaining whipped cream and spread over chilled pie.