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Bob Hope's Favorite Lemon Pie

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup sugar plus 2 Tbsp extra sugar
  • 3 Tbsp. Corn starch
  • 1 cup Boiling water
  • 4 Tbsp. Lemon Juice
  • 2 Tbsp Butter
  • 4 egg yolks
  • Pinch of Salt
  • Grated rind of 1 lemon

Instructions
 

  • Combine corn starch and sugar, add water slowly, stirring constantly, until thick and smooth.   Add slightly beaten egg yolks, butter, lemon rind and juice, and salt.  Cook 2 or 3 minutes.  Pour into baked shell.  Cover with meringue made from 3 egg whites beaten stiff, and 2  1/2 Tbsp.  sugar.  Bake in slow oven 15 minutes, or until light brown.