Tennessee Williams's Lemon Icebox Pie

Serves: 2

Keyon Hand

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

50

Spice

59

Sweetness

48

Sourness

40

mins

Prep time (avg)

4.5

Difficulty

Ingredients:

3 cup

Sugar

Directions:

1

In a food processor, finely crush vanilla wafers

2

Melt butter for flavor (not sweet butter)

3

Pour vanilla wafers and melted butter into a pie plate and shape into a pie shell with your fingers

4

In a large bowl, mix lemon juice, condensed milk, and egg yolk

5

Pour mixture into pie plate

6

In another bowl, beat egg whites* with cream of tartar, vanilla extract, and sugar until stiff white peaks form

7

Pour over pie and top with freshly grated lemon rind

8

Bake in oven at moderate heat just long enough for meringue to brown, about 20 minutes

9

Cool to room temperature and put in the refrigerator until ice-cold

10

The result, as Tennessee Williams always said, "is good enough to slap your Mama

11

" In a food processor, finely crush vanilla wafers

12

Melt butter for flavor (not sweet butter)

13

Pour vanilla wafers and melted butter into a pie plate and shape into a pie shell with your fingers

14

In a large bowl, mix lemon juice, condensed milk, and egg yolk

15

Pour mixture into pie plate

16

In another bowl, beat egg whites* with cream of tartar, vanilla extract, and sugar until stiff white peaks form

17

Pour over pie and top with freshly grated lemon rind

18

Bake in oven at moderate heat just long enough for meringue to brown, about 20 minutes

19

Cool to room temperature and put in the refrigerator until ice-cold

20

The result, as Tennessee Williams always said, "is good enough to slap your Mama

21

" *If salmonella is a concern in your area, we suggest using a powdered egg white substitute

22

*If salmonella is a concern in your area, we suggest using a powdered egg white substitute