I Need an Easy Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe

ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Dinner SOS, verify kitchen director and host Chris Morocco is joined by senior verify kitchen editor Shilpa Uskokovic to help caller Erin redeem her baking reputation after a Thanksgiving pie gone mistaken.

Erin signed as a lot as make a lemon meringue pie at Thanksgiving, nonetheless the recipe she chosen (clearly not a Bon Appetit recipe) didn’t pretty show how she wished it to. It wobbled, and in the long run grew to become lemon meringue soup, reasonably than company into one factor sliceable Chris calls on Shilpa, the baking wizard of the verify kitchen, to share some data with Erin—although Shilpa admits, to Chris’s dismay, that she’s not a fan of lemon meringue pie. Shilpa diagnoses that the issue Erin ran into wanted to do with starch activation. She explains that in case you don’t prepare dinner dinner egg yolks to a positive temperature, the egg protein doesn’t completely denature and continues to eat away on the cornstarch, stopping the pie filling from congealing and setting.

Chris includes battle prepared collectively together with his private Lemon Meringue Pie recipe For Erin, whereas Shilpa searches for a newer, shinier citrus pie to convey to the showdown. She suggests this Cherry Lemonade Seashore Pie and her private recipe for Triple Citrus Creamsicle Pie, which might be every impressed by the summer time season seashore staples. Hear now to hear as to whether or not Erin is able to get hold of citrusy pie perfection.