Thanks to yesterday's little experience (see post), I have discovered a wonderful new recipe. I hope you'll let me share it with you.
Method:
Bake pastry base and fill with lemon filling
Add meringue topping, and place in very hot oven for twenty minutes. The meringue should be an even black colour.
Get someone to hold the rubbish bin and carefully remove all the burnt meringue. It should come off more or less in one piece (this part is oddly satisfying). Discard in bin.
Make more meringue, and bake for an hour in cool oven this time. The meringue should be a nice golden colour.
Voila! Thrice-baked lemon meringue pie.
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Excellent advice:-)
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Martine.
DeleteWe tried this today with Baked Alaska and it was definitely worth it in the end!x
ReplyDeleteI'll bet it was!
DeleteA great and inspiring true illustration of "Never Give Up!"
ReplyDeleteThank you kindly, ER!
DeleteI laughed at this! Sorry! It was the 'even black colour' that got me.
ReplyDeleteThe even black colour got me too, Fran. I think it was blackest thing I've every removed from an oven.
DeletePlus how often do you get to use the word "thrice"?
ReplyDeleteOh, yes! What an excellent point!
DeleteThe other comments have said it all, Frances, but I just have to add my two cents' worth. I loved "even black colour" and "thrice-baked"!
ReplyDeleteAnd to think I actually thought you had thrown the whole thing out, and that your son had to be happy with "it's the thought that counts"!
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I was going to throw it out, Kay, but I glimpsed pale pastry beneath the black, like a small glimmer of hope, and managed to save (some of) it!
DeleteI, too, had thought you'd thrown the entire pie out and am glad you did not!
ReplyDeleteMe to, Meike!
DeleteHope it tasted great, Frances! Have never made lemon meringue pie but have made baked alaska lots of times (with raspberries and ice cream inside the sponge flan base).
ReplyDeleteRosemary, it was honestly the best I've ever made. In fact, I would repeat the recipe, if it were not for the price of eggs!
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