Old-Fashioned Lemon Pie

Sweet and as bright as a summer's day. From the New England chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947.

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Serves: 6-8

Ingredients

• 3  tablespoons flour
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  lemon, juice and rind of
• 2  tablespoons butter, melted
• 2  eggs, separated
• 1 1⁄2 cups milk
• 1  pie crust (either storebought or your own recipe)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 450°F.
2. Mix flour, sugar, lemon juice and rind, butter, beaten egg yolks and milk.
3. Beat egg whites and fold into mixture.
4. Pour into pastry shell, place on bottom shelf of oven and bake for ten minutes.
5. Reduce heat to 350F and move pie to middle shelf; bake for 40 minutes longer.