How To Make: Lemon Meringue Pie \(^.^\)

Hello and welcome back to my blog. If you're new here, welcome! 

Today I will show you guys how to make a lemon meringue pie. 

For the crust: 
Buy one at the frozen section or search up a recipe

For the filling you will need:

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup cornstarch 

Pinch of salt

2 cups of water

2 egg yolks

3 tablespoons of lemon juice

1 teaspoon of lemon peel 

1 teaspoon of butter

For the meringue you will need:

3 egg whites

6 tablespoons of sugar 

1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar

"This is my grandmother's recipe. it's a lovely, special dessert that feels like home" (Dyck 488).

This recipe gave me such a hard time, it felt like I was battling the ingredients because I am a simpleton who gets stuck on the smallest details possible.

On a scale from 1 to 10 on how long this took me, it was a solid 7. 

When life gives you lemons, you make pie, not lemonade, because pies are better.

Step one: Bake your crust according to the directions on the packaging or on the recipe you used online.

Step two: Mix the water, sugar, and the cornstarch in a pan and heat up until it looks translucent and thick.

Step three: Pour half of the heated mixture into the eggs and STIR STIR STIR. This prevents the eggs from cooking and turning into scrambled eggs.

Step four: Pour out the other half of the mixture and like step three STIR LIKE YOU MEAN IT. 

Step five: Add the other ingredients to the new mixture which should be the butter, lemon juice, and lemon peel. 

For the meringue: Add the egg whites, sugar, and the cream of tartar into a bowl. Then just continue whipping the mixture until you can make stiff peaks. This process takes a long time, like 10-15 minutes. I was using a electric mixer on maximum speed too. So if you're doing this step by hand, well, good luck. At first it will look like nothing is changing, but keep going because slow and steady wins the race. Eventually it will become white and then after a couple of minutes become meringue with stiff peaks. 

Step six: Once everything is ready, pour the filling into the pie crust. Then put the meringue on top of the filling and make whatever design you want.Then bake this in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for around 15 minutes or until the top of the meringue becomes golden brown.

Step seven: Enjoy a slice of this pie after chilling it for at least 3 hours.

(Final Product)

(Filling)

(Meringue)

Since the new year is literally in a few hours, my question to you is this: What's your new years resolution, and how will you achieve it in 2017? 

Dyck, Merle. “Pies and Tarts.” The Taste of Home Cookbook: from the World's #1 Cooking Magazine, Reiman Media Group, Greendale, WI, 2010.