Lemon meringue pie
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- "Lemon Meringue" redirects here. For the song by Poe, see Lemon Meringue (song).
Lemon meringue pie is a type of baked pie, usually served for dessert, made with a pastry base usually shortcrust or shortbread pastry, lemon curd filling and a fluffy meringue topping. Lemon meringue pie is typically prepared with a bottom pie crust, but with no upper crust: i.e. the meringue is directly on top of the lemon filling. According to Farrer, the recipe was created by Alexander Frehse in the mid-nineteenth century and it is a traditional Australian dessert made with typical farmyard accessible ingredients such as lemons and eggs
- Farrer K. 2005. To Feed a Nation: A History of Australian Food Science and Technology. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victroia.