Easy lemon meringue pie ! - Real Recipes from Mums

Ingredients (serves 8)

180g plain biscuits, crushed
125g butter, melted
395g can sweetened condensed milk
3 eggs, seperated
2 tablespoons grated lemon zest
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup caster sugar

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan forced. Grease a 23cm flan tin.
. Combine biscuit crumbs and butter in a bowl, mixing well; press into the base and sides of the prepared tin. Refrigerate until firm.
Meanwhile, beat together Sweetened Condensed Milk, egg yolks, lemon zest and lemon juice. Pour into prepared base.
Beat egg whites until soft peaks form; gradually beat in sugar until dissolved. Spoon meringue over filling. Bake 15-20 minutes or until golden. Serve warm or cold.

Notes

if you want to cheat with the pastry I sometimes defrost a shortcrust sheet or puff pastry sheet from the freezer and then just make the filling and the merignue, still makes a decent pie!

111 Comments

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 25 Sep 2024
    11:51 am
I love this easy recipe! My mum always made this growing up and she used an old school recipe she had cut out of some magazine way back when. When I asked for a copy she sent me a blurry photo that is really hard to read! So glad to find this one on here!

- - Mumof4 said
  - 25 Jun 2024
    3:22 pm
This is one of my faves. Love lemon desserts.

- - cassy26 said
  - 30 Sep 2023
    10:57 am
My favourite dessert! Great recipe thank you

- - Frankiielot said
  - 06 Aug 2023
    8:59 pm
Oh wow, lemon and condensed milk – have not tried that combo before but sounds so so good!
Thank you for sharing.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 19 Dec 2018
    5:18 pm
Now I need to make myself a lemon meringue pie thanks so much…

- - mom81879 said
  - 31 Oct 2017
    10:15 am
I love lemon meringue pie. This is definitely my dessert for tonight. I’ll have to make it late so I don’t eat it all before tea

- - taynik46 said
  - 05 Oct 2017
    12:01 pm
yum I love a good lemon merignue pie – yours looks and sounds beautiful – cannot wait to give it a try – thank you for sharing

- - mom101628 said
  - 04 Jul 2017
    10:03 pm
Thanks for sharing – looks simple enough for even me to make.

- - mom112217 said
  - 01 Aug 2016
    1:52 pm
Your recipe is easy and delicious,thanks for sharing!

- - Melissa89 said
  - 31 Jul 2016
    12:22 am
This looks amazing

- - Kasey said
  - 03 Jun 2016
    4:57 pm
One classic amazing pie!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 03 Feb 2016
    12:45 pm
Drool! This looks and sounds amazing – lemon merengue is my favourite dessert.

- - mom62624 said
  - 15 Dec 2015
    9:41 am
I love the simplicity, thanks for sharing!.

- - dannsbuild said
  - 24 Sep 2015
    7:46 pm
This looks really good! A really nice recipe! Thanks

- - EllenG89 said
  - 05 Aug 2015
    6:51 am
holly deliciousness! I love a good lemon meringue! I would also like to try it as lime!

- - mom109229 said
  - 30 Jun 2015
    9:39 pm
Lemon Meringue Pie could be my favourite (maybe after cheesecake)!

- - kymichelle said
  - 14 Jun 2015
    2:16 pm
I’m going to try this thanks. Mum used to make them all the time but I’ve never made on myself!

- - mom82590 said
  - 30 May 2015
    7:22 pm
Thanx for sharing this yummy recepie

- - crystalangela said
  - 06 Apr 2015
    5:10 pm
My hubby is going to love this. Thanks

- - mom57808 said
  - 07 Mar 2015
    8:27 am
oooh just add a dollop of cream or ice-cream and what more could a girl want