Tag: Meringue

Lemon meringue pie is one of those things that achieving perfection on seems to elude so many home cooks. I’m not afraid to admit that it’s something I tried once a few years ago. It was a complete disaster, with a meringue that was goopy and a filling that was so runny it looked like cream of lemon soup. I didn’t know what went wrong and it was no longer something I wanted to deal with. “Leave it to the experts,” I said. Until now, when I had the perfecting-of-lemon-meringue-pie fire reignited.