Key Lime Pie
This is a favorite Florida recipe. Key Lime trees grow easily in back yards
of South Florida homes. The fruit when mature is yellow and is smaller and
more round in size than a regular lime. The pie will be a pale yellow in
color with white meringue.
6 eggs separated (yolks and whites)
1/2 cup of Key lime juice (regular lime juice may be substituted)
3/4 cup sugar
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 baked pie shell
Bowl #1 - Beat egg yolks until lemon colored. Blend in condensed milk.
Slowly add lime juice and mix well.
Bowl #2 - Add cream of tartar to egg whites and beat until foamy.
Continue beating adding sugar 1 tablespoon at a time until egg white peak.
Fold 6 Tablespoons of the mergingue into the filling mixture in bowl #1.
Pour filling mixture into a nine inch baked pied shell.
Top with remaining meringue and bake in a slow oven until meringue is golden
brown.
When cool refrigerate for storage. Cut and serve when pie has chilled.
Tangy and sweet. Enjoy!
Suzanne
Suzanne's Quilt Shop
Royal Palm Beach, FL
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