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Lime Chiffon Pie
Topic Started: Mar 25 2005, 01:14 PM (271 Views)
sylley2000
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Sylvia, Grand Bend ON
Original ingredients from the early 1970's and method,
Ingredients:

1 cup boiling water
1 cup sugar
1 package Lime Jello
1/4 cup lemon juice (not fresh)
1 tsp finely grated lemon rind
1 can evaporated milk
Chocolate wafers
Green food colouring
1/3 cup butter

Method:

Leave 11 chocolate wafers whole. Prepared the rest of the wafers for the crust by crushing with a rolling pin between two pieces of waxed paper or saran wrap until fine.

Put a small amount of the finely crushed wafers aside for the topping. Melt the butter and combine with crushed wafers. Press into a large pie plate. Place 10 chocolate wafers upright around the perimeter of a large deep-dish pie pan, chill and set aside.

Chill evaporated milk in freezer just until icy. Dissolve gelatin in the boiling water, Chill gelatin until partially set, then whip until fluffy. Add the grated lemon and stir in the lemon juice into the lime mixture.

In a separate bowl, whip milk adding the sugar. Fold into gelatin mixture. Add green food colouring to the desired intensity and stir gently.

Pour mixture into prepared crust.

Put the one whole chocolate wafer in the centre of the pie. Using the left-over finely-grated wafer crumbs, beginning just outside the wafer in the centre, make circles with chocolate crumbs gradudually increasing the size of the circles 'til you're at the edge of upright wafers.

Let chill and serve.

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The Cherry cake is a Betty Crocker mix finished with Cream Cheese icing & garnished with strawberries. Cakes can be garnished with whatever fruit you have on hand, provided it's not too wet.

Our son-in-law is very allergic to nuts and appreciates home-made desserts that have ingredients that are nutless. Sometimes mixes have them -- labels need to be read very carefully to ensure they aren't there. He could go into anaphylactic shock if he ingested them.

Sylvia

On edit: I have changed this recipe from what I posted earlier because the new one used artificial sweetner, eggs and graham cracker crumbs for part of the crust. They were not from my original recipe.

After tasting this changed recipe this evening, all of us agreed the original recipe and method was much better-tasting. Accordingly, I have returned this recipe to its original ingredients and metholdogy. My family loves this dish--should not have played around with it!

Note: Lemons and 'real' lemon juice can prevent jello from setting.
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Trailblazer
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What a beautiful picture! When I read of these goodies in another thread, I envisioned what your culinary creations looked like, and voila...here is a wonderful picture of both with a chalk board like restaurants use, and flowers! that is soooo neat!

:) Thanks for posting a great picture! :hungry:
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mychrissy
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Chrissy
Sylvia,
The recipe for the Lemon Chiffon Pie sounds delicious. I'm going off the low carb diet this Sunday and having the Snowball Cake..and potatoes. Then hopefully Monday I will have enough will power to go back on the diet again.
I have a chalk board in my kitchen also, but it's quite tall, nice idea- I think I will do something similar. Thanks for the idea. You table looks very inviting.

Chrissy

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sylley2000
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Sylvia, Grand Bend ON
What a great meal...I'm stuffed! It's great to get together with family for special meals. We do eat together more often in the summer, those sittings tend to be less formal and are BBQ's.

We are now returning to our diets. Boo hoo ... the mashed potatoes, gravy, and stuffing will be missed! :floorrollin: :floorrollin: :floorrollin:

Sylvia

On edit ... regarding my chalk board. Found my piggy at a store in Myrtle Beach--I can never remember its name, but I know exactly where it is. They have great stuff there. I go there often. My granddaughter in particular likes to write on it when she comes over to make things with me in the kitchen. The things at that store are not expensive--they just have a very good buyer who is very good at picking things that aren't seen in too many other places. I have to limit myself how much I spend there because there are a lotta, lotta things there that I would buy for our house.
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Heathertee
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What a lovely, Eastery picture! SHouldn't that go into the newsletter?
Thanks for posting the recipes, Sylvia. If you decide to contribute a lime chiffon pie to the Northeast Rally dinner, I hope you'll give me a heads-up so I can be first in line! :hungry:
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