Lemon Meringue Pie For Two

Whether y'all are empty nesters, similar us, or y'all solely accept a duet of people to create for; "recipes for two" are great!! Not solely exercise they eliminate the temptation for 2nd third helpings, but they are excellent for those times when y'all don't experience similar eating the same total size dessert all week!! This recipe makes 2 perfect (single serving size) lemon meringue pies, i of picky-picky husbands favorites.

CRUST
1/3 loving cup all utilization flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon  mutual frigidity shortening (I utilization butter flavored)
1 tablespoon mutual frigidity butter
1/2 teaspoon white sugar
1 tablespoon mutual frigidity water

Mix all of the dry out ingredients inwards a small-scale bowl; cutting the mutual frigidity shortening in addition to butter into the dry out ingredients until it is almost "half of a pea" size. Stir inwards the mutual frigidity H2O in addition to mix into a ball (don't over work). Divide dough inwards half.

Any small-scale oven proof dish volition run for these petty pies; I used my 10 ounce Pyrex custard cups.  Press the dough into the bottom and almost one-half agency upwards the sides of the custard cup. You tin laissez passer on the sack gyre out the dough if y'all like, but I notice it easier to only press the dough into place. Bake inwards preheated 425 oven for almost 10 minutes or until lite golden. Remove from oven in addition to fix aside.

LEMON FILLING
1/3 loving cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon corn starch
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 loving cup mutual frigidity water
1 egg yolk, lightly beaten alongside fork   (save the egg white)
2 tablespoons FRESH lemon juice
1 tablespoon butter

In a small, heavy bottom, saucepan, mix the sugar, cornstarch in addition to salt; whisk inwards the mutual frigidity water,  until it is smooth.  Cook (stirring) on medium estrus until thick in addition to bubbly, hence trim estrus in addition to create (and stir) for 2 minutes.

Slowly drizzle almost half of the hot mixture into the beaten egg yolk (whisking similar crazy every bit y'all drizzle, so y'all don't teach scrambled eggs). Once good whisked, pose it all dorsum into the saucepan in addition to create 2 to a greater extent than minutes at a gentle boil.

Remove from estrus in addition to add together butter in addition to lemon juice; mix thoroughly in addition to pour into baked pie shells.

MERINGUE
1 egg white
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Using a GLASS bowl (never utilization plastic when whipping egg whites) in addition to beaters that are totally costless from whatsoever grease or oil; crunch egg white in addition to cream of tartar until y'all teach soft peaks. Sprinkle inwards the vanilla in addition to saccharide (while the mixer is yet running) in addition to move along beating until y'all teach stiff peaks.

Spread meringue onto hot filling. Put dorsum into a preheated 350 oven for almost 10-15 minutes or until the peaks of the meringue are golden.

After the meringue is cooked, allow these petty pies sit down at room temperature for almost an hr hence chill them for at to the lowest degree 2 hours earlier serving. Once they are chilled, y'all tin laissez passer on the sack elevator the pies out of their baking dish for a prettier presentation.

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