{"id":981,"date":"2013-11-25T20:35:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T01:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2013-11-25T21:14:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T02:14:43","slug":"lemon-meringue-pie-ellen-ej","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Lemon  Meringue Pie &#8211;  Ellen (EJ)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your choice of pie crust: \u00a0flour or graham cracker crust.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lemon\u00a0 Meringue Pie<\/b><br \/>\n2 c. sugar<br \/>\n1\/2 c. cornstarch<br \/>\n2 c. water<br \/>\n4 egg yolks, slightly beaten \u00bc c. butter<br \/>\n2\/3\u00a0 c. lemon juice<\/p>\n<p>Bake pie shell.<br \/>\nHeat oven to 400.<br \/>\nMix sugar and cornstarch in microwavable bowl.<br \/>\nStir in water.<br \/>\nCook ten min until mixture thickens and boils.<br \/>\nBoil 1 min.<br \/>\nGradually stir at least half the hot mixture into egg yolks.<br \/>\nBlend into hot mixture in bowl.<br \/>\nBoil 2 min.<br \/>\nStir in butter and lemon juice.<br \/>\nPour into baked pie shell.<br \/>\nHeap meringue onto hot pie filling; spread over filling, carefully sealing meringue to edge of crust to prevent shrinking or weeping.<br \/>\nBake about 10 min or until a delicate brown.<\/p>\n<p><b>Meringue for Pie<\/b><br \/>\n4 egg whites<br \/>\n\u00bc t cream of tartar<br \/>\n\u00bd c sugar<br \/>\n\u00be t vanilla<\/p>\n<p>Beat egg whites and cream of tartar until foamy.<br \/>\nBeat in sugar, 1 T at a time; continue beating until stiff and glossy.<br \/>\n<i>Do not underbeat<\/i>.<br \/>\nBeat in vanilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your choice of pie crust: \u00a0flour or graham cracker crust. Lemon\u00a0 Meringue Pie 2 c. sugar 1\/2 c. cornstarch 2 c. water 4 egg yolks, slightly beaten \u00bc c. butter 2\/3\u00a0 c. lemon juice Bake pie shell. Heat oven to 400. Mix sugar and cornstarch in microwavable bowl. Stir in water. Cook ten min until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts","category-pies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wesselbest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}