Key-lime Pie murder recipe card

KEY LIME PIE MURDER
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THE FILLING:
5 eggs
sed milk
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14-ounce can sw
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1⁄2 cup sour
e juice ***
1⁄2 cup key lim
anulated) sugar
1⁄4 cup white (gr zest (optional)****
on
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1⁄2 teaspoon
A Hannah Swensen Mystery
By JOANNE FLUKE
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up a bit for the
Whisk the whole egg and the egg yolks until they’re a
uniform color. Stir in the can of sweetened condensed
milk. Add the lemon zest, if you decided to use it, and
the sour cream. Stir it all up and set the bowl aside.
Juice the limes and measure out 1⁄2 cup of juice in a
small bowl. Add the 1⁄4 cup sugar and stir until the
sugar has dissolved. Now add the sugared lime juice
to your egg mixture and whisk it in.
Pour the pie filling into the graham cracker or cookie
crust.
Bake the pie at 325 degrees F. for 20 minutes.
Take it out of the oven and set it on a rack
to wait for its meringue.
INCREASE THE OVEN TEMPERATE TO
350 DEGREES F. TO BAKE THE MERINGUE.
KENSINGTON
HARDCOVER
MARCH 2007
0-7582-1018-3
$22.00/$31.00
KEY LIME PIE MURDER
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A Hannah Swensen Mystery
By JOANNE FLUKE
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out into a dome
OR smooth it with the tip of your spatula
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1/3 cup white
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tar and salt to m in.
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mix the
Add the
room temperat u wish. This pie can be
egg whites and
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bowl with your ites on HIGH until they
refrigerate it if temperature, or chilled. It
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Beat the egg wh
it’s chilled.
served at
s.
cut and serve if
form soft peak
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knife from stick
Continue to be gar. When the egg whites
(To keep your you cut the pie, dip it in cold
su
en
wh
sprinkle in the stop mixing and tip the
meringue
s,
form firm peak meringue. If the egg whites water.)
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bowl to test the the side, they’re ready.
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of the spatula
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