Sunday, May 2, 2010

How to make a lemon merengue pie?

The weather has been really nice and warm lately and it always makes me feel like drinking lemon juice or a yummy lime cordial with a bit of Angusturo bitter.
And thinking about lime also made me want to make this pie. Something I have never made before so it doesn't look perfect but it tasted absolutely great!

Here is what you need:
a pie shape, baking beans or peas,
powdered sugar, a scale, flour, butter, eggs,
lemons, salt, sugar, a scraper for zestYou can converse the metric here.
First we make the dough:
150g flour
60g butter
50g sugar
1 egg
1 pinch of salt

Put the flour through a sieve.
Add the butter, the sugar, the salt and the egg.
Mix the dough with your hands.
Wrap it in a piece of plastic and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
For the filling you need:
3 lemons
3 eggs
150g powdered sugar
30g butter

Take off the zest of the lemons and squeeze out the juice.
Add the butter to a pan and let it melt on
a low fire and add the lemon juice.
Add the zest, the powdered sugar and the eggs.
Whisk permanently until the mixture is thick.
Don't let it boil or your eggs will look grumpy.
It took me about 15 minutes to whisk it so be patient.
Roll out the dough on a flowered surface.
Butter your pie shape or use baking paper.
Note: I used the wrong shape as I could not get the pie out.
Better use one which is straight on the bottom.
Place the dough in the mould.
Oops, does look like the dough wasn't rolled out well enough.
Blind bake your pie dough with beans or peas.
The oven needs to be preheated onto 160°C and put it in there for 15 minutes.
Then add the filling in the blind baked dough.
Put it in the oven for 15 more minutes on 130°C.
For the merengue you need:
3 egg whites
150g powdered sugar

Whisk the egg whites firmly and slowly add the powdered sugar.
Spread out the merengue over the pie.
Place it under the grill for minutes.
I've learned I should not make a tutorial on a first attempt as there are a few things I would do different now. I would use a different pie shape so I could at least show you a pretty pic of when the pie is placed on a plate. But, it's all gone now and it tasted delicious. :)

22 comments:

  1. I can give you all my word, that lemon pie was delish! Not a crumb was left by the end of the day... DELICIOUS!
    Now I want to try to make one too!
    Thanks by the way...it was sweet of you to bring it and it was just a sweet pie! :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. uhhhhh I am hungry!!!!!!!thank you!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Mmm! Looks so yummmmmy!
    Thank you so much for sharing!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Thank you SO much!!!! I am surely going to try this!!!
    I give you my malt beer recipe in exchange: http://pazzapazza2.blogspot.com/
    :-) Yael

    ReplyDelete
  5. I am sure, I will try this! such a great tutorial! Thanks!

    ReplyDelete
  6. oh , yes yes thank you for the tutorial

    ReplyDelete
  7. Oooooooooooooh I just made waffles but I will try it next week! Thanks for sharing the calories! ;)

    ReplyDelete
  8. This, I definitely must give it a try. Thanks for sharing the recipe Mitsy and congrats on another great tutorial!

    ReplyDelete
  9. I really think there is something to be said for making a tutorial on the first try. The outcome may not have been perfect (though it looked pretty good to me!) but to be brave enough to show it encourages other first timers to give it a try and not be disappointed if their results aren't perfect either.
    good job!

    ReplyDelete
  10. MMM awesome tutorial must try this one out =D

    ReplyDelete
  11. lemon merengue is my favourite pie, thanks for the how to and your final picture is lovely

    ReplyDelete
  12. Oh yummmmmmm! One of my favourite kinds of pie! =) I've never made one myself though, maybe now with this tutorial I'll give it a try.

    ReplyDelete
  13. thanks for sharing the recipe! it looks awesome! lemon pie is my fave. would you be able to use that pie tin with a circle of parchement paper in there? i've never done that but just so you don't have to buy a new dish...
    hope you're having a great weekend!

    ReplyDelete
  14. Oh yummy! My mom used to make these...and it's not a far step away to make banana custard pie, or chocolate cream pie, or coconut cream pie, or the best: key lime pie! Ugh...there goes my diet!

    ReplyDelete
  15. Nom nom .. looks delicious. I will give it a try on one of my off-days on which I consume a little bit of sugar and flour :)

    ReplyDelete
  16. It looks so good! Funny thing is I baked meringues today and decided to try a lemon meringue tart soon. As I noticed you had been baking that now I linked to this recipe of yours. I hope that's ok:)

    ReplyDelete
  17. Oh yes, my absolute favourite! I'm going to print this off right now and add it to my recipe book - a definite winner :) Kx

    ReplyDelete
  18. Now I'm hungry again. Can you send me a piece? Great little recipe and photos to help!

    ReplyDelete
  19. Ahh the lemon pie recipe!! I had forgotten that you were going to share it and how absolutely fabulous that you made it from scratch to :) Looks delicious!

    ReplyDelete
  20. There's a birthday coming up next week, this one is going to be one to taste for the guests ; )
    Bedankt voor 't receptje

    ReplyDelete
  21. Nice pie. ... I would try it ... but I have one question why do you use the beans for? Thanks,

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment!