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Lime Cream Dessert Recipe

A friend shared this recipe with me many years ago. I love the tart and sweet combination. It's so cool and refreshing on summer days.—Peggy Burdick, Burlington, Michigan

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Lime Cream Dessert Recipe

Prep: 15 min. + chilling

Yield: 1 Servings

5 10 15

Ingredients

1 egg, beaten
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup lime juice
1 teaspoon grated lime peel
2 drops green food coloring
2/3 cup whipped cream

Directions

In the top of a double boiler, combine the egg and sugar. Cut the butter into tablespoons; add to double boiler. Add lime juice and peel; cook and stir over boiling water for 8 to 10 minutes or until thick. Remove from the heat; add food coloring. Cool. Fold in the whipped cream. Chill for at least 1 hour. Yield: 1 serving.

Originally published as Lime Cream Dessert in Taste of Home August/September 1993, p22