January’s baking challenge for the Daring Bakers is Lemon Meringue Pie.
The Daring Bakers was founded by Ivonne of Cream Puffs in Venice and Liz of La Mia Cucina. Each month a baking challenge is posted by one of the members. This month Jen of The Canadian Baker was the lovely hostess.
For the past few weeks, the Cookbook Addiction household has been invaded by nasty cold/flu germs. I thought I would be spared, but last week I also fell victim to this germ invasion and thought I wouldn’t be able to participate in the challenge.
My first attempt was before the ‘germ invasion’. The recipe was clear and easy to follow. I managed to make the crust, the lemon curd and the meringue with relatively no problems. When I took the pie of the oven, it looked good enough to eat! When I cut the first slice, the filling was quite runny! I realized I cut the pie too soon – it still was quite warm. Nevertheless it tasted good.
My recent attempt (while being fully medicated) produced a firm lemon curd. This time I made sure that the crust and the curd were cold before I piled on the meringue. Also once the pie was baked, I let it cool for a few hours before cutting the first slice. The meringue was missing ‘peaks’ but I was just happy I managed to complete this challenge.
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Thanks for this challenge Jen! I am sure I will bake this pie again.
Liliana,
I hope you and the family are feeling much better! Your pie looks great!
Hope that you are feeling better! The pie turned out gorgeous! Lemons are good against sickness, eat up girl!
Bravo to you for pushing though the sickness to make the pie! I usually take to my bed and whine. The pie looks yummy!
I hope you are feeling better! Great job on this challenge.
Happy LMP Day! 🙂
Looks delicious. Eat that pie so you start feeling better!
Feel better soon! Bravo on your LMP.
Great looking pie! It almost looks like a brown sugar meringue – how did you get it to brown so evenly?
You are a true Daring Baker doing this while under the weather. I adore how yours looks though. It has the look of something my grandma would make. So yummy and homey!! Fantastic Pie!
I feel your pain. I opted to come in late with the January challenge, since I don’t want to infect my co-workers and the alternative of eating it all myself didn’t make sense (even if lemons ARE loaded in vitamin C). Hope you’re feeling better now!
Interesting that cooling everything helped, since some people were hypothesizing that they had let it cool “too” much.
Feel better soon!