Comments on: Step by step: lemon meringue pie

By: 2009: A year in recipes, rambles and silly buggery - ENGLISH MUM

2009: A year in recipes, rambles and silly buggery - ENGLISH MUM — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:49:39 +0000

[...] was a lemon meringue pie and beef stew and dumplings kind of a month. The greenhouse blew away and I felt all growed up [...]

By: English Mum

English Mum — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:38:13 +0000

Gill: You’re not alone – I arsed up the pastry the first time I made it by not baking it for long enough – it was like soggy biscuit! Glas you enjoyed it though x

By: Gill

Gill — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:06:49 +0000

Finally gave the lemon meringue pie a whirl – lemon curd was delish, meringue was great but I made a pigs ear out of the pastry (I blame the swiss butter!) Still we wolfed the whole thing down in no time! I will definitly make this again – thanks

By: English Mum

English Mum — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:45:40 +0000

Sandra: Oh God yes! I remember that! Wasn’t it supposed to be lemon oil or something? Must get my Ma to read this x

By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:42:46 +0000

Yep, and there was this strange little capsule thingy that came in the packet. It floated around in the saucepan until it eventually dissolved – sort of like a bath oil capsule. Weird!

By: English Mum

English Mum — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:57:39 +0000

Baino: Exactly! It’s like your national dish or something! The lemon curd is magic though – I’m going to make some more and bottle it up x

By: Baino

Baino — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:34:13 +0000

I’m so going to try this. LMP is the only thing my mother could cook when she first got married but I’ve never been able to perfect meringue. Shameful . . .an Australian who cannot make a pavlova!

By: English Mum

English Mum — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:59:09 +0000

Jay: Oh boo. I wonder if it’s possible to find a lemon curd substitute and then serve it with whipped cream on top, sprinkled with sugar and crusted with a blow torch? Might have a looksee x

Sandra: So did I!!! I was chatting to Hubby about this today – remember the lemon curd bit used to be strangely fluorescent too? Weird. x

Gill: Welcome! Just the thing for a nippy Zürich weekend, I’m sure. Let me know how you get on!

By: Gill

Gill — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:33:42 +0000

The pie looks fantastic! I will give it a try this weekend. Greetings from freezing cold Zürich

By: Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:19:14 +0000

It was only as an adult that I finally discovered that the lemon curd part of the lemon meringue pie did not, in fact, come from a box. I grew up with the Bird’s Lemon Meringue pie filling, flat meringue with charred peaks and watery bits puddling underneath, and I won’t even start about the pastry, shudder.
I think this is a different beast altogether!!