Lemon Meringue Pie

Ingredients

Crust
3/4 cups (175g) Graham Cracker crumbs
1/4 cup   (50g)   Sugar
6 tbls butter

Lemon filling

1 cup white sugar
2 tbls flour
3 tbls cornstarch
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups water
2 lemons, juiced and zested
2 tbls butter
4 egg yolks beaten

Meringue topping

4 egg whites
6 tbls white sugar

Directions 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
• Mix crust ingredients and press into glass pie shell.
• Bake pie crust for 10 minutes. 
• In a saucepan, whisk together sugar, flour cornstarch, salt, water, lemon juice and zest.
• Cook over medium-high heat stirring, until mixture comes to a boil.  Stir in butter.  
• Place egg yolks in bowl and gradually whisk in hot sugar mixture. when fully mixed with a cup of hot sugar mixture,  add it back to saucepan. Continue stirring until thick. 
• Pour into pie crust. 
• In mixer beat the egg whites until foamy. Add sugar gradually, and continue to whip until stiff peaks from. 
• Spread over pie, sealing the edges at the crust.
• Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes or until meringue is golden brown. 

Layered Blueberry Crisp

A flavorful graham cracker-layered blueberry crisp.

from The Joy of Blueberries, Theresa Millang

Ingredients

1 cup graham cracker crumbs

1/4 cup melted butter

1 tablespoon granulated sugar

3 cups fresh blueberries, divided

3/4 cup brown sugar packed

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

1/8 teaspoon ground cloves

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice, divided

1 tablespoon water

Directions

Preheat oven to 350

Mix first three ingredients in bowl and set aside (graham cracker mixture)

Mix brown sugar, spices and salt. Stir in vanilla. set aside (Spice mixture)

Press 1/3 cup graham cracker mixture onto bottom of a 2 quart baking dish.

Sprinkle 1 1/2 cups blueberries evenly over the crumbs.

Sprinkle 1/2 of Spice mixture of blueberries.

Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon lemon juice and 1 tablespoon water.

Repeat layer of 1/3 cup graham cracker mixture

Then remaining 1 1/2 cup blueberries

Sprinkle remaining Spice mixture over blueberries

Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice

Top with remaining 1/3 cup crumbs.

Cover and bake 40 minutes. Increase heat to 400 and bake another 10 minutes, Serve warm with ice cream or topped with sweetened whipped cream.