Lemon Pies
Origin: Mobile, Alabama
Source: Abby Fisher, 1881
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 1 tablespoonful butter
- 1.5 tea-cup powdered sugar
- 2 lemons
- pastry
Instructions
- Rub the butter and powdered sugar together until they reach a cream consistency.
- Add the egg yolks to the butter and sugar mixture and beat until light.
- Beat the egg whites until perfectly light and add to the other ingredients.
- Roll two lemons with your hands on a board until soft.
- Grate the peel of the lemons and add to the preparation.
- Squeeze the juice of the lemons into the preparation.
- Mix all articles in the preparation together well.
- Put one layer of pastry at the bottom of the pie plate.
- Pour the filling into the pastry and bake immediately in a hot oven.