Black Bottom Lemon Pie

Name: Black Bottom Lemon Pie
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 4 eggs, separated; 2 oz. semisweet chocolate; 3 tblsp. water; ¼ c. lemon juice; 1 c. sugar; 1 tsp. lemon peel; Baked 9" pie shell

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook

By Nell B. Nichols

Published 1965

About

Brand-new taste thrill—chocolate and lemon—you’ve no idea how good it is

Ingredients

Baked 9" pie shell
2 oz. semisweet chocolate
4 eggs, separated

Americas
United States
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Melt chocolate over hot water. Spread evenly over bottom of cool pie shell.
In top of double boiler, beat egg yolks until thick and lemon-colored. Add lemon juice and water, mixing well. Then stir in lemon peel and ½ c. sugar. Cook over hot (not boiling) water, stirring constantly, until thick, about 12 minutes. Remove from hot water.
Beat egg whites un