Scintillating Lemon Pie

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 9-inch pie shells
• 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 3 lemons
• 1/3 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup water

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400.
• 2 roll out 1/2 of the dough into 9-inch circle; cut into 6 wedges; place wedges on cookie sheet.
• 3 mix 1 1/2 t sugar and nutmeg together in small bowl; sprinkle over pastry wedges; bake at 400 degrees for no longer than 5 minutes, or until set; remove from cookie sheet and set aside.
• 4 grate yellow part of rind; peel and slice lemons very thinly; set aside.
• 5 cream butter, 1 1/2 cups sugar and flour in mixer bowl; beat in eggs, then beat in water.
• 6 stir in reserved lemon slices and grated rind.
• 7 roll out remaining pastry to form 9-inch pie shell.
• 8 pour lemon mixture into prepared pie shell.
• 9 bake at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
• 10 arrange baked pastry wedges on top of filling and bake for an additional 5 minutes, or until filling is firm.