Since I love to bake and hate to do yard work, my roomie and I have an agreement:
She doesn’t make me mow grass, and I make pies.
It’s a win-win. And since it’s super warm out and everything’s blooming early, it was finally time for T to cut the grass… and for me to make my first pie of the season. Tamara chose Lemon Meringue, which I’ve never tackled before. NBD.
*Hot water pastry is the easiest/fastest way to make the crust.
* When making the pie filling, don’t try to multitask. It makes your pan look like this:
*When a recipe calls for a double boiler and you don’t have one,
you stick a bowl over a pan and voila!
(ghetto, but it works)
*When you can’t find your mixer, you can just make meringue
by beating egg yolks with a fork really effing fast.
*Approximately 90 seconds after, when your arm is about to fall off,
just go search for your mixer. Mine was in the attic.
*Mixers are the BOMB. Kudos to the mixer inventor.
*If you feel like you burned your filling(when you tried to multitask earlier), don’t worry.
It all works out once you add in the rest of the ingredients and cook.
*Getting a “few” gratings off a lemon rind takes elbow grease…
or a sharper grater.
*When it’s done and you put the pie in the oven to brown,
only put it in for 3 minutes, instead of 5, so it doesn’t burn.
*If it’s not as brown as you want it for looks,
you can use a lighter!
*Just don’t burn yourself. Obvi.
I used a long candle lighting lighter…
again… ghetto, but it works.
*If you’re making the crust from scratch, all in all, this pie took me 2 hours (I think) to finish.
Glad I had a few hours free. First times take me forever.
*Lemon Meringue pie is yummy, and not as hard as I thought it would be.
For my Cherry Pie musings, go here.
OHEMGOSH! I have always wanted to make lemon meringue pie but was always too scared!
Thanks for presenting the good and the not so easy!!!
Maybe a project for the weekend!!!! 🙂
yum! i would much rather bake than cut the grass, too. but i also don’t like doing the dishes so i guess that makes me all around lazy 🙂 xx.