Americana Key Lime Pie

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin (1 env.)
• 4 egg whites
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup heavy cream, whipped
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 9 in.baked pastry shell
• 1/2 cup lime juice
• pistachio nut, chopped
• 1/4 cup water
• lime slice (for garnish)
• 1 teaspoon lime peel, grated
• heavy cream, whipped (to top)
• 3 drops green food coloring

Recipe

• 1 thoroughly mix gelatin, 1/2 cup sugar, and salt in saucepan.
• 2 beat together egg yolks, lime juice, and water; stir into gelatin mixture.
• 3 cook and stir over medium heat just till mixture comes to boiling.
• 4 remove from heat; stir in grated peel.
• 5 add food coloring sparingly to tint pale green.
• 6 chill, stirring occasionally, until the mixture mounds slightly when dropped from a spoon.
• 7 beat egg whites till soft peaks form; gradually add 1/2 c sugar, beating to stiff peaks.
• 8 fold gelatin mixture into egg whites.
• 9 fold in whipped cream.
• 10 pile into cooled baked pastry shell.
• 11 chill till firm.
• 12 spread with more whipped cream; edge with grated lime peel.
• 13 sprinkle chopped pistachio nuts in center.
• 14 garnish with thinly sliced lime placed in whipped cream mounds around edge of pie.