Lemon Meringue Pie For Two

Whether yous are empty nesters, similar us, or yous solely convey a dyad of people to create for; "recipes for two" are great!! Not solely practise they eliminate the temptation for 2nd third helpings, but they are excellent for those times when yous don't experience similar eating the same total size dessert all week!! This recipe makes ii perfect (single serving size) lemon meringue pies, 1 of picky-picky husbands favorites.

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

Mix all of the dry out ingredients inward a pocket-size bowl; cutting the mutual depression temperature shortening as well as butter into the dry out ingredients until it is most "half of a pea" size. Stir inward the mutual depression temperature H2O as well as mix into a ball (don't over work). Divide dough inward half.

Any pocket-size oven proof dish volition move for these piddling pies; I used my 10 ounce Pyrex custard cups.  Press the dough into the bottom and most one-half means upward the sides of the custard cup. You tin curlicue out the dough if yous like, but I honor it easier to but press the dough into place. Bake inward preheated 425 oven for most 10 minutes or until lite golden. Remove from oven as well as ready aside.

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

In a small, heavy bottom, saucepan, mix the sugar, cornstarch as well as salt; whisk inward the mutual depression temperature water,  until it is smooth.  Cook (stirring) on medium oestrus until thick as well as bubbly, as well as thence trim back oestrus as well as create (and stir) for 2 minutes.

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

Remove from oestrus as well as add together butter as well as lemon juice; mix thoroughly as well as 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 usage plastic when whipping egg whites) as well as beaters that are totally gratis from whatever grease or oil; rhythm out egg white as well as cream of tartar until yous larn soft peaks. Sprinkle inward the vanilla as well as saccharide (while the mixer is all the same running) as well as move along beating until yous larn rigid peaks.

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

After the meringue is cooked, allow these piddling pies sit down at room temperature for most an hr as well as thence chill them for at to the lowest degree 2 hours earlier serving. Once they are chilled, yous tin elevator the pies out of their baking dish for a prettier presentation.