Zesty Lemon Custard Pie

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Ingredients:

Cookie Pastry

1 Unsalted butter; at room temperature

1/4 cup Sugar

1 Egg

1 1/2 cup Flour

Filling

1/2 Unsalted butter

4 Eggs

1 cup Sugar

1 tbsp Grated lemon peel; (1 large lemon)

2/3 cup Fresh lemon juice

Powdered sugar; for garnish

Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add egg and flour and mix until smooth dough is formed. With hands, shape into a ball and flatten into a disc. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled. Preheat oven to 350.

 

Make pastry and roll or press dough evenly over bottom and up sides of 9-inch pie pan. Melt butter in microwave; set aside. Whisk eggs and sugar in medium-size bowl until blended. Add peel and slowly stir in butter and lemon juice until incorporated. Pour into crust. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until top of custard is lightly browned. It will not test clean and will look underdone, but will set as it cools.

When cool, refrigerate. Before serving, sprinkle powdered sugar on top.

Lemon Pie Recipe

Lemon Pie Recipe
This citric pie recipe are very refreshing when consumer in the morning, a great dessert in the summer.

INGREDIENTS FOR THE PIE
2 Lemons, juiced
1 Lemon rind, grated
2 tbls Corn starch
3 Eggs, separated
1 1/2 cups Sugar
3 tbls Flour
1 tsp Butter or margarine
2 cups Boiling water

PIE BAKING DIRECTIONS
Sift flour, corn starch, and sugar into a saucepan. Add butter. Add the lemon juice to the egg yolks and beat with a rotary egg beater until they are thick and velvety. Add this to the sugar, corn starch, butter and flour mixture and stir until free from lumps. You may need to add a few
tablespoons of cold water to make thin enough not to lump. Pour the boiling water over lemon mixture. Set on the stove and let come to a boil, stirring constantly. And here is a secret; Your pie will have a better flavor if it scorches just a tiny bit. Add grated lemon rind.

Let cool, stirring often. Pour into pie shell, and add meringue. Do not flatten the meringue, but let it stand in peaks. Brown slightly.

Pie Recipes: Lemon Pie