Lime Meringue Pie

Ingredients

• 9-inch Baked Pie Shell
• 1½ cups sugar
• ⅓ cup cornstarch
• 3 egg yolks, slighly beaten
• 1½ cups water
• 2 teaspoons grated lime peel
• ¼ cup lime juice
• 2 drops green food color, if desired
• Meringue for 9-inch Pie

Directions

1. Bake pie shell.
2. Heat oven to 400 degrees.
3. Stir together sugar and cornstarch in medium saucepan.
4. Blend egg yolks and water; gradually stir into sugar mixture.
5. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils.
6. Boil and stir 1 minute.
7. Remove from heat; stir in lime peel, lime juice and food color.
8. Immediately pour into baked pie shell.
9. Heap meringue onto hot pie filling; spread over filling, carefully sealing meringue to edge of crust to prevent shrinking or weeping.
10. Bake about 10 minutes or until a delicate brown.
11. Cool away from draft.