Lemon Icebox Pie

[KayJay]

This has been a big hit in our family for generations This is the original recipe with a vanilla wafer crust. I made a crust with Pamela's gluten-free mix yesterday and it turned out really good. So substitute your favorite gluten-free pie crust or wafer like cookies

Lemon Icebox Pie

1 can of condensed milk

1/3 cup sugar

3 eggs

3 large lemons

1 box of Vanilla Wafers

1/4 teaspoon Vanilla flavoring

1/4 teaspoon of Cream of Tarter

Separate eggs. (place the whites aside for later) Stir yolks and condensed milk together until well blended.

Juice lemons makes about 1/2 cup (I like to add extra )

Mix in the lemon juice and vanilla. (in the old days we would not cook the filling but now we warm it up very slowly to kill any bacteria in the eggs do this in a sauce pan)

Line pie pan with wafers on bottom and stand them around the edges. You may need to crumble some to fill holes. Pour filling into pan.

Next:

Whip the egg whites until peaks form. Add sugar and cream of tarter. place on top of the pie. Brown under the broiler. Stand and watch or it will burn

Place pie in fridge for about 3 hours. Serve cold.

If anyone make this let me know how it turns out. We love ours tart down here. I think I add 1 cup of lemon juice.

[Lisa]

Thanks for posting....sound soooo good. I would like to find a pie mix that is inexpensive and not crush up six bucks of cookies.

Any hints.

[Guest nini]

crust options... well, personally I like the cookies crushed up... like Enjoy Life Food's cookies... but you can also use gluten-free corn flakes, butter, sugar and cinnamon and mix it all together, that was what I used for a cheesecake crust when I first when gluten-free...

melt the butter, crumble the cornflakes into the pie plate, mix in sugar and cinnamon and crush up... drizzle the melted butter over the crumb mix stir well and press into the pan with back side of spoon. Chill before adding filling, DO NOT BAKE THIS CRUST