Recipe: Perfect TL's Award Winning Deep Dish Lemon Meringue Pie

TL's Award Winning Deep Dish Lemon Meringue Pie.

You can cook TL's Award Winning Deep Dish Lemon Meringue Pie using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of TL's Award Winning Deep Dish Lemon Meringue Pie

1. Prepare of water.
2. You need of granulated sugar.
3. It's of cornstarch.
4. It's of lemon juice.
5. It's of grated rind of one lemon.
6. Prepare of egg yolks.
7. You need of sea salt.
8. It's of butter.
9. You need of for meringue.
10. It's of egg whites.
11. You need of granulated sugar.
12. Prepare of cream of tartar.
13. Prepare of vanilla extract.
14. It's of for pie crust.
15. Prepare of all-purpose flour.
16. Prepare of cold shortening.
17. Prepare of ice water.

TL's Award Winning Deep Dish Lemon Meringue Pie step by step

1. prepare pie crust. Add flour and the cold shortening in a bowl and mix with pastry cutter or by fingers until crumbly. Add the ice water and roll in ball. On a floured surface roll out dough and place in pie pan. After its smoothed over and and crimped edges take a fork and poke a few holes in the dough. Bake in oven 350°F until light brown..
2. While crust is cooling, prepare filling. In a double boiler add 2 cups water, 1 cup sugar and the cornstarch. Add rinds. Stirring constantly until thickened. Add butter , lemon juice and sea salt. Continue to cook and keep stirring about 5 minutes. Add beaten egg yolks and cook and stir another 5 min. Take off heat and cool..
3. Once filling is cool and thick put it into the pie crust..
4. Make meringue. Place egg whites into mixer and beat on high until fluffy. Add cream of tartar. Continue beating and slowly add the sugar. Beat until soft peaks form..
5. Spread meringue over pie making sire to cover all edges. Bake 400/degrees F about 5 min or until light brown..
6. Cool completely in fridge at least 4/hrs before serving. Enjoy!.