Mile-High Lemon Meringue Pie

Name: Mile-High Lemon Meringue Pie
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups (8¾ ounces), sugar; 1 cup, lemon juice (6 lemons); 1/2 cup, water; 1/4 cup (1 ounce), cornstarch; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 8 , large egg yolks (reserve 4 whites for meringue); 2 tablespoons, grated lemon zest; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into pieces and softened; 1 , (9-inch) pie shell, fully baked and cooled; 1/2 cup, water; 1 cup (7 ounces), sugar; 4 , large egg whites (reserved from filling); Pinch, table salt; 1/2 teaspoon, cream of tartar; 1/2 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2006

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SERVES8 to 10

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UPDATE: This recipe has been slightly reformulated to be more failproof since its initial publication. The revision you see here was published in August of 2021. We wanted our Mile-High Lemon Meringue Pie recipe to produce a tall and fluffy...

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