Key Lime Pie

Basic Key Lime Pie Recipe



Key Lime Pie

   Ingredients required
4 eggs
1 can condensed milk
1/2 cup lime juice
6 tablespoons of sugar
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Key Lime Pie Recipe

   Beat four egg yolks, add condensed milk and lime juice, beat until thick. Beat one egg white until stiff then fold into above mixture. Pour into baked pie shell in regular size pie pan. For topping: beat 3 egg whites, blending sugar and cream of tartar. Beat until stiff and forms peaks. Bake in moderate oven until egg whites are golden brown. Serve six good portions.


Orginal Key Lime Pie

   Ingredients required
1 large can condensed milk
2 beaten egg yolks
1/3 cup lime juice
1 cooked or baked pie shell (8 inches)

Instructions for Orginal Key Lime Pie Recipe

   Take the can of condensed milk, blend into unbeaten yolks. Slowly add 1/3 cup lime juice, stirring all the time. Pour into pie shell. Use whites for meringue. Serves eight.

Enjoy quick and easy recipes from an old cookbook made about fifty years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House, Mrs.Gerald Ford, the First Lady's Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe about 1975. Also a recipe from the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.

Basic Key Lime Pie Recipe