The Very Best Homemade Lemon Meringue Pie

Here’s one for the lemon lovers. Made completely from scratch, just like Grandma used to make. No artificial anything here! So much better than those artificial powder pretenders. Reminds me of Sunday suppers while growing up.

A homemade lemon meringue pie is a good reason to perfect your pastry making technique too. I always recommend that beginner bakers start with pastry pie shells before moving on to two crust filled pies.

The Very Best Homemade Lemon Meringue Pie

Prep Time

45 mins

Cook Time

45 mins

Total Time

1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

For the Pastry. Sufficient for two 10 inch pie shells.

• 1 cup very cold butter cut into small cubes
• 2 ½ cups flour
• ½ tsp salt
• 1/4 cup ice water or a little more. Only enough to make a dough form.

For the Filling

• 1/3 cup corn starch
• 1/3 cup cake flour
• pinch salt
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 5 egg yolk slightly beaten
• Zest of 2 lemons very finely chopped
• Juice of 2 lemons
• 2 cups water
• 3 tbsp butter

For the meringue

• 5 egg whites
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• ¼ tsp cream of tarter
• Pinch salt
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

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