Nutrition Facts

  • One serving:
  • (1 piece)
  • Calories:
  • 458
  • Fat:
  • 28 g
  • Saturated Fat:
  • 16 g
  • Cholesterol:
  • 151 mg
  • Sodium:
  • 217 mg
  • Carbohydrate:
  • 47 g
  • Fiber:
  • 0 g
  • Protein:
  • 5 g

Luscious Lemon Pie

My mother always made this around the holidays for our family. Now I have four married daughters and seven grandchildren, and I serve lemon pie all year!

SERVINGS

6-8

CATEGORY

Dessert

METHOD

Chill

PREP

20 min.

COOK

10 min.

TOTAL

30 min.

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
  • Dash salt
  • 1 cup milk
  • 3 egg yolks, lightly beaten
  • 1/3 cup lemon juice
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • Grated peel of 1 lemon
  • 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
  • 1 pastry shell (9 inches), baked
  • TOPPING:
  • 2/3 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
  • 1/8 teaspoon almond extract, optional

DIRECTIONS

In the top of a double boiler, combine sugar, cornstarch and salt. Stir in milk, egg yolks and lemon juice. Cook and stir over boiling water until thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir 3 minutes longer. Remove from the heat and stir in butter and lemon peel. Cool, stirring occasionally. When mixture is room temperature, stir in sour cream. Pour into shell and refrigerate several hours or overnight.
    For topping, whip cream until thickened; beat in sugar and almond extract if desired. Continue to beat until stiff. Spread or pipe with pastry bag on pie before serving. Yield: 6-8 servings.

Printed from tasteofhome.com Nov 19, 2008

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