Lemon meringue pie

Unsliced Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon meringue pie is a type of baked pie, usually served for dessert, made with a pastry base usually shortcrust or shortbread pastry, lemon curd filling and a fluffy meringue topping. Lemon meringue pie is typically prepared with a bottom pie crust, but with no upper crust: i.e. the meringue is directly on top of the lemon filling. The recipe was created by Alexander Frehse in the mid-nineteenth century. It is a traditional Australian dessert made with typical farmyard accessible ingredients such as lemons and eggs, and is related to another famous New Zealand dessert, the Pavlova.

References

• Farrer K. 2005. To Feed a Nation: A History of Australian Food Science and Technology. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victroia.