Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, diner style lemon meringue pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Diner Style Lemon Meringue Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Diner Style Lemon Meringue Pie is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook diner style lemon meringue pie using 22 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Diner Style Lemon Meringue Pie:

1. Make ready 1-9 inch deep dish pie crust
2. Make ready Filling:
3. Make ready 1/2 cup cornstarch
4. Get 1 cup granulated sugar
5. Take 1/4 teaspoon salt
6. Make ready Zest of 2 lemons
7. Make ready 2 1/2 cups water
8. Make ready 1/4-1/2 cup fresh lemon juice. See note
9. Get 3 tablespoons butter not margarine
10. Make ready 4 egg yolks (keep whites for meringue)
11. Make ready Mile High Meringue:
12. Get 4 egg whites
13. Prepare 4 tablespoons granulated sugar
14. Make ready Pinch salt
15. Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
16. Take Secret to no weep meringue:
17. Prepare 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
18. Get 1 tablespoon cornstarch
19. Prepare 1/2 cup water
20. Make ready Note:
21. Get I like mine slightly tart so I use 1/2 cup lemon juice
22. Get Use 1/4 cup or to your preference for sweeter or tangier filling

Instructions to make Diner Style Lemon Meringue Pie:

1. Make your own 9 inch crust or use frozen. Bake at 350 until light golden brown. Cool completely.
2. In heavy bottom sauce pan, combine sugar, cornstarch and water. Stir until dissolved.
3. Heat over medium heat,stirring often,until thick and bubbling slightly.
4. Whisk egg yolks and add 3 spoons of hot thickened filling to temper eggs stirring constantly.
5. Add butter, lemon zest, lemon juice and tempered eggs into thickened mixture and stirring constantly cook until mixture thickens more and bubbles slightly.
6. Pour filling into pre baked crust. Set on wire rack to cool.
7. Wash pan and add 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 tablespoon cornstarch. Whisk.
8. Stir in 1/2 cup water and cook until mixture thickens and starts to look like it is getting clear.
9. Set aside to cool completely.
10. Beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Add in the 4 tablespoons of sugar and vanilla.
11. Beat to incorporate. Add the cooled mixture to egg whites and continue beating until stiff peaks form.
12. Spread meringue over pie and with spoon slightly tap top and pull up to form small peaks.
13. Brown in 350 degree oven until light brown.
14. Cool completely and refrigerate covered in cake carrier so the meringue doesnt get messed up.
15. Cool completely. I usually make mine a day ahead and let it chill overnight.

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