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Lime Meringue Pie

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Modern Australian

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 c cornflour
  • 1 c caster sugar
  • 1/2 c lime juice
  • 1 1/4 c water
  • 2 tsps finely grated lime rind
  • 60 g unsalted butter chopped
  • 3 eggs separated
  • 1/2 c caster sugar extra
  • 1 1/2 c plain flour
  • 1 tbsp icing sugar
  • 140 g cold butter chopped
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2 tbsp water

Method
 

  1. Process flour, sugar and butter until crumbly. Add egg yolk and the water; process until ingredient come together. Knead dough on a floured surface until smooth. Enclose pastry with plastic wrap; refrigerate 30 minutes.
  2. Make pastry
  3. Grease a 24cm round loose-based fluted flan tin. Roll pastry between sheets of baking paper until large enough to line tin. Ease pastry into tin, press into base and side; trim edge. Cover & refrigerate 30 mins.
  4. Preheat oven to 240°c.
  5. Place tin on an oven tray. Line pastry case with baking paper; fill with dried beans or rice. Bake 15 mins; remove paper and beans. Bake about 10 mins; cool. Turn oven off.
  6. Meanwhile, combine cornflour and sugar in a medium saucepan; gradually stir in juice and the water until smooth. Cook, stirring, until mixture boils and thickens. Reduce heat; simmer, stirring, 1 minute. Remove from heat; stir in rind, butter and egg yolks. Cool 10 mins.
  7. Spread filling into pie shell. Cover, refrigerate 2 hours.
  8. Preheat oven to 240°c.
  9. Beat egg whites in a small bowl with an electric mixer until soft peaks form; gradually add extra sugar, beating until sugar dissolves.
  10. Roughen surface of filling with a fork before spreading with meringue mixture. Bake pie about 2 minutes or until meringue is browned lightly.

Notes

Source: Women's Weekly "The Baking Collection"