Sunshine Lemon Pie

(adapted from Arizona Sunshine Lemon Pie)

Ingredients

    • 1 or 1 & 1/2  large lemon – peel & pulp  – everything but white pith & seeds.
    • 1 cup sugar
    • 1/2 cup melted butter
    • 4 eggs
    • 1 tsp vanilla
    • unbaked pie shell

Preparation

    1. Wash lemon.  Use a potato peeler to remove a thin layer of peel with as little pith as possible. Save peel. Big pieces OK – they will be pulverized in blender.
    2. with a small sharp knife, remove pith ( white part)  – like peeling an apple – and throw it away.
    3. cut lemon up enough to be sure you have removed all the seed.
    4. Put all ingredients ( except pie shell)  in blender or food processor and blend for about 1 min till very smooth but it will be runny. Pour into pie shell and bake 30 – 40 min at 350 till just slightly brown and doesn’t jiggle.

     

  2. I like using the blender better than the food processor because you don’t have to worry about the liquid level and it’s easier to wash.  But I think the food processor pulverizes the lemon better.   Usually takes my pies 40 minutes to get a little brown.  Also it helps to put the empty shell on a cookie sheet or shelf in the oven & pour pie filling into it – very sloshy and easy to spill.

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