Recipes...
This is one of my most popular Spring or anytime desserts. It will serve around 10 to 12 people and is very simple to make. If you are in a rush or not feeling confident, you can even use purchased lemon pudding mix, though the real thing is sooo much nicer. Because my beloved husband is lactose intolerant I use a whipped cream substitute in this recipe. Feel free to use the real thing. This dessert is very popular and actually not too very high in calories.
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1 cup sugar
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¼ cup cornstarch
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1 ½ cups cold water
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3 eggs, separated
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Juice and rind of 2 lemons
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1/3 cup sugar for the meringue
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1 (purchased) or home made angel food cake
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1 8 oz. container of Cool Whip OR 2 cups of Whipped Cream
Method: In a stainless steel or glass pot, mix sugar and cornstarch. Add water, whisking or beating with a fork until all is well blended. Whisk in egg yolks, then cook over a moderately high heat stirring constantly until mixture begins to thicken, then boil for one minute. You must keep stirring or it will stick on the bottom and make a mess.* Remove from the heat, add lemon rind and juice, stir well. Set aside and make meringue.
To make meringue, beat the egg whites until stiff either with a wire whisk-lots of work although good exercise, or in a mixer--easier by far! Sprinkle in the sugar very slowly. It helps to use a ¼ or ½ teaspoon measuring spoon. When your meringue is nice and fluffy and you have incorporated all of the sugar. Carefully fold the meringue into the pudding, keeping it fluffy.
To put the dessert together, tear small pieces off angel food cake and place a layer in the bottom of a pretty glass dessert bowl. Pour 1/3 of pudding over cake. Scoop out 1/3 of the cool whip and spread lightly over pudding mixture. Alternate cake, pudding, and Cool Whip ending with Cool Whip. Chill for 4 to 24 hours, depending on your schedule, and serve.
*If you want to, you can use a double boiler-very secure, or
keep the heat lower. Doing it this way takes longer. However,
if you have a tendency to burn things, this keeps the pudding
is safer.
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