i am looking for a lemon meringue pie recipe that uses ingredients i can produce on a smallholding.
that means no condensed milk, no cornstarch.

i remember mother making this with only eggs butter flour lemons and sugar (ok sugar has to be the exception, i know honey wont peak a meringue)

whats your recommended way to proceed?

Welcome to the forum petia.ivanova.

All the recipes that I have found so far contain corn flour/corn starch but I will look in a few more books to see what I can find.

I presume that the cornflour stabilises the lemon mix so that it can be beked in the oven with the meringue on top of it .

edit ... I have just found this onn the internet , is this the sort of thing you are looking for ?
http://www.joyofbaking.com/LemonMeringueTart.html

Last edited by mummza (Sun 27 Jan 13 6:39pm)

petia.ivanova.3781 wrote:

i am looking for a lemon meringue pie recipe that uses ingredients i can produce on a smallholding.
that means no condensed milk, no cornstarch.

i remember mother making this with only eggs butter flour lemons and sugar (ok sugar has to be the exception, i know honey wont peak a meringue)

whats your recommended way to proceed?

The best filling for a lemon meringue pie is a lemon curd - using eggs, butter, lemons and sugar. You definitely don’t need condensed milk - however the addition of cornflour thickens the mix, stabilizing it. If you make your curd thicker by adding more egg yolks you shouldn't need the cornflour.  The meringue in a lemon meringue pie does usually have cornflour to make it more malleable and soft - however it isn’t a necessity and you can omit the cornflour altogether  - just make sure you really whip the meringue until it is stiff. Or you can make an Italian meringue – which is a little more complex but well worth it as the flavour and texture of the meringue is like nothing else.

Are nuts and dried fruit a good plan if you're driving all day? I love nuts - once I pop I can't usually stop - and it's amazing how the calories mount up. I'm not generally a calorie counter but it shocked me when I found out how many are in a bag of nuts! Dried fruit is very sugary, too, and sugar rushes/crashes while you're driving are not great.

I would have gone with fresh fruit for snacking while driving, rather than dried and nuts. Not so energy-dense and keeps you hydrated. Obviously harder to keep a stock in the cab if the weather's warm, and you'd need to take time every now and then to peel and cut some up and stick it in a box or pot so you don't need to peel oranges while you're driving.

My best driving snack is oatcakes. Not the most exciting, but I find they keep the blood sugar steady, which helps my concentration. I used to drive hundreds of miles in a day for work and a pack of oatcakes was a lifesaver.

Jamie would you consider please writing a book for those with allergies like gluten, dairy, wheat etc

or perhaps a mini series on tv
i am 1 of those people with such allergies.
tnx J
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