Sour Cream Lemon Pie
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
1 Pie
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
- 1 (9 inch) pie shells, baked and cooled
- 3 1⁄2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon rind, grated
- 1⁄2 cup lemon juice, fresh squeezed
- 3 egg yolks, beaten
- 1 cup whole milk, not fat free
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1⁄3 cup sugar
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1⁄4 teaspoon yellow food coloring
directions
- Combine sugar, cornstarch, lemon rind, juice, egg yokes and milk in a heavy sauce pan; cook over medium heat beating with a hand electric mixer until thick.
- Stir in butter and cool mixture to room temperature.
- Put pan in cold water to cool.
- Stir in sour cream and pour filling into cooled pie crust.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerator for at least one hour.
- In a chilled mixing bowl mix whipping cream, sugar, lemon extract and food coloring until thick, cover pie with whipping cream.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Belly Up With Bob
Branscomb, Ca
I am a retired Plant Maint. Mgr. For Harwood Products Inc. We manufacture lumber products. I write original recipes for our company newspaper.