Recipe: Sky-High Lemon Icebox Pie for Patricia

Sky-High Lemon Icebox Pie
Posted by LupusOhio

9-inch pie shell, baked
4 egg yolks
2/3 cup sugar
Pinch of salt
4 tablespoons lemon juice (more for tart flavor)
Grated rind of 2 lemons
3/4 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
1/3 cup cold water
4 egg whites
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 pint cream, whipped
Lemon slivers

Place egg yolks, 2/3 cup sugar, salt and lemon juice in top of double boiler; cook over boiling water, stirring until thick; add lemon rind and gelatin which has been soaked in cold water for 5 minutes. Let mixture cool. Beat egg whites until stiff; slowly add 2/3 cup sugar. Beat until creamy. Fold egg whites into cooled lemon mixture. Place in baked pie shell, sky-high; chill at least 6 hours or overnight. Top with whipped cream. Garnish with lemon slivers.

SERVES: 8