Recipe - Lemon Crumb Pie

CRUMB CRUST
1 One half cup Chocolate wafers
1/3 cup Sugar
1/3 cup Butter, melted

FILLING
3 Eggs, separated
Grated rind and juice of 2
lemons
1 cn (14 oz) sweetened condensed
milk
1/8 teaspoon Salt

Crumb Crust: Put cookies in plastic bag and roll with rolling pen until
crushed. Mix the crumbs, sugar and butter together in a bowl. Press and pat
the crumb mixture into the 9 in pie pan. Reserve One fourth of the crumbs for top
of pie. Refrigerate crust until needed.

Filling: Preheat oven to 325°. Beat the egg yolks until they are thick and
pale. Stir in the grated lemon rind, juice, milk and salt. Beat the egg
whites until stiff but not dry and fold them into the yolk mixture. Pour
into the lined pie pan. Sprinkle the reserved crumbs on top and bake for 40
mins.

NOTES : You can use vanilla wafers, graham cracker crumbs if you want.

Recipe by: Mother Fannie Farmer Cookbook

Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by
LVFG53A@prodigy.com (MRS IRA M DENNIS) on 9 Ma, r 1997.