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Stone's Creek Restaurant Mile High Lemon Pie

Source of Recipe

Internet: Stone's Creek Restaurant, Marshalltown, Iowa


Recipe Introduction

This pie towers nine inches at its peak. Its nickname is the "Lap-Lander" because so many dump it over. Gourmet magazine named it one of the top ten pies in the nation in its August 2001 issue. Over the years, the restaurant also has been featured in National Geographic and the Saturday Evening Post. Five generations of Stones have served up lemon pie and other specialties to generations of Iowans.

List of Ingredients

-Baked pie shell
-8 egg yolks, slightly beaten
-1 cup granulated sugar
-Juice from 2 lemons
-2 lemon rinds, grated
-Salt to taste
-2 tablespoons unflavored gelatine
-1/2 cup cold water
-8 egg whites, beaten
-1 cup granulated sugar




Recipe

-Cook egg yolks, 1 cup sugar, juice from two lemons, grated lemon rind and salt in a double boiler, stirring frequently until it reaches the consistency of thick custard.

-Soak gelatine in cold water until dissolved.
-Add to hot custard and let cool.

-Beat the egg whites stiff, but not dry.
-Beat in 1 cup sugar gradually and then beat again.
-Fold cooled custard into beaten egg whites.
-Put into baked pie shell and chill three hours.
-Serve with whipped cream.