Lemon Meringue Pie For Two

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

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

Mix all of the dry out ingredients inwards a minor bowl; cutting the mutual frigidness shortening too butter into the dry out ingredients until it is almost "half of a pea" size. Stir inwards the mutual frigidness H2O too mix into a ball (don't over work). Divide dough inwards half.

Any minor oven proof dish volition move for these piddling pies; I used my 10 ounce Pyrex custard cups.  Press the dough into the bottom and almost one-half agency upward the sides of the custard cup. You tin curl out the dough if you lot like, but I abide by it easier to simply press the dough into place. Bake inwards preheated 425 oven for almost 10 minutes or until lite golden. Remove from oven too laid aside.

LEMON FILLING
1/3 loving cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon corn starch
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 loving cup mutual frigidness 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 too salt; whisk inwards the mutual frigidness water,  until it is smooth.  Cook (stirring) on medium estrus until thick too bubbly, too therefore cut down estrus too develop (and stir) for 2 minutes.

Slowly drizzle almost half of the hot mixture into the beaten egg yolk (whisking similar crazy every bit you lot drizzle, so you lot don't larn scrambled eggs). Once good whisked, seat it all dorsum into the saucepan too develop 2 to a greater extent than minutes at a gentle boil.

Remove from estrus too add together butter too lemon juice; mix thoroughly too 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 utilisation plastic when whipping egg whites) too beaters that are totally gratuitous from whatever grease or oil; crunch egg white too cream of tartar until you lot larn soft peaks. Sprinkle inwards the vanilla too saccharide (while the mixer is withal running) too hap beating until you lot larn 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 piddling pies sit down at room temperature for almost an lx minutes too therefore chill them for at to the lowest degree 2 hours earlier serving. Once they are chilled, you lot tin elevator the pies out of their baking dish for a prettier presentation.