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Lemon Pie, Quickly Made. —One lemon; melted butter, 1 tablespoonful; water, 6 table-spoonfuls; corn starch, 1 table-spoonful (flour will do, but not quite so good); eggs, 2; sugar, 6 table-spoonfuls. Directions—Grate off the yellow, or zest of the lemon, as it is called—peel oft the white part and throw it away—then grate up the pulp, if you have a coarse grater, or chop it fine having picked out the seeds. Put starch or flour in the water, and stir as for gravies; then stir in the melted butter and 3 spoonfuls of the sugar, and the beaten yolks of the eggs with the grated yellow and pulp of the lemon. Make with one crust only, and when baked properly, having beaten the whites of the eggs with the balance of the sugar for frosting, put it on and give it a nice brown. Powdered sugar is the best for frosting.
Remarks. —The advantage of this pie is it can be made in a hurry, as it is all made cold, except the butter. Lemon pies are quite often made with flour in place of the corn starch.
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