Your first thought when you want to make a lemon pie recipe usually is a lemon meringue pie that is topped with a fluffy cloud of stiffly beaten egg whites. This is another fabulous and easy lemon pie, but an unusual one that has a different twist of incorporating the meringue into the batter for a bit of lift to that velvety filling for a foamier texture. I would describe this pie as more of a luscious lemon custard to give you a better clue.
Something else that you will appreciate is that this pie is less complicated than a traditional lemon meringue. Basically, all that you do for this recipe is creaming and folding before depositing into your unbaked pie shell.
Of course, you will still need to separate the yolks from the egg whites and prepare a meringue. Separate your eggs first. A trick that I use when I want to speed up that time is running the eggs under hot water before attempting to separate them. You will be surprised at how much that helps when you don’t want to wait after taking your eggs from refrigerator to warm at room temperature. Furthermore, you won’t need to brown the meringue topping when it just goes into this filling or cook a pudding like filling. If you want an easy and less time involved, then this pie is the one for you.
Another time saving tip is to try my oil pie crust. Like I mentioned quite a few times, this is foolproof and the only crust I make for pastry from desserts, quiche crust to pot pie. I started making this flaky crust when I ran out of shortening one year when I had lots of apples peeled ready for apple pies and found I was out.
Here are some other excellent lemon pies that I have made and want to share with you. The first is my lemon-marshmallow cream pie. Another delicious one is my lemon blueberry-coconut cream pie .
My easy lemon pie recipe is another fabulous, but unusual lemon pie that has a different twist of incorporating the meringue into the batter for a bit of lift to that velvety filling for a foamier texture.
- 3 tbsp butter
- 3 tbsp flour
- 1-1/4 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 1-1/2 cups milk
- 1 tsp grated lemon rind or lemon extract
- 1/3 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 10-inch unbaked pie crust
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Separate your eggs first. A trick that I use to when I want to speed up that time is running the eggs under hot water before attempting to separate them. You will be surprised at how much that helps when you don’t wait to wait after taking your eggs from refrigerator to warm at room temperature.
Beat the egg whites with the salt first until you get stiff peaks. Set aside.
Cream your butter, sugar and flour next.
Now add the yolks next and mix them into the butter, sugar, and flour. When you are finished pour in the milk, lemon juice and lemon rind or lemon extract and incorporate.
Fold in the beaten egg whites to the ingredients next, gently turning them into the filling.
Pour the mixture into your greased, unbaked 10-inch pie shell.
Bake at 350-degrees for about 15 minutes before reducing your oven temperature to 300-degrees for about 40 more minutes or until you test with a cake tester, toothpick or slender knife to see if anything sticks.
ENJOY!
That looks really delicious. Thanks for the recipe!
This sounds delicious!! Lemon pie is one of my favorites. I’m going to try your recipe.
This is looking good and tasty
That looks delicious. I bet it has a wonderful creamy texture too. I have to check out the recipe for your crust.After all these years it comes out different every time!
This is one of my husband’s favorites. I’d never tried meringue pies until we were together.
(Easiest Lemon Pie Recipe Ever) This pie looks wonderful, I am a huge fan of anything lemon. Just cannot get enough. I am going to make this this summer for my family.
I am a major fan of lemon meringue pies as a matter of fact have half of one in the refrigerator. What really catches my eyes is how you used the meringue in the filling. It just looks so good and I want a big bite of them
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Try it and tell me what you think.
This looks so yummy and I will have to try out the recipe 🙂
This looks delicious! It does sound pretty easy to make too! I’ll have to try it out. 🙂
This looks delicious!
We can all see how it looks. Tell us how it TASTES!
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Hi Bonnie,
My family loves it. It has extra creaminess from the milk and meringue that is so different. Try it!
I have a variation of this recipe entitled, “Sponge Lemon Pie”, a favorite in my family from my great grandmother’s collection of newspaper recipes. I have two newspaper clippings from the 1880s with variations on this recipe.
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Hi MaryLynn,
How interesting that your great grandmother also made this recipe and those old 1880s recipe clippings sound so fascinating to read. I had an old cookbook from 1865 or so that had an advertisement showing bank interest at 4 or 5 percent if you could believe that. I love reading old cookbooks.