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granny's lemon sponge pie


"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse

"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb

"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli

"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child

"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio

"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare

"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne

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Granny's Lemon Sponge Pie

Ingredients:
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 and 1/4 cups white sugar
4 eggs, separated
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
dash of salt
1 and 1/4 cups whole milk
grated peels of 2 lemons
the juice of 2 lemons --- should amount to 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
1 unbaked 9 inch pie shell

Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 375�.
2) In a large mixin' bowl, cream together the butter and sugar
'til light and fluffy.
3) Beat in the egg yolks, flour, salt, milk, lemon peel, and lemon juice.
4) In a separate bowl, beat egg whites 'til stiff but not dry.
5) Gently fold the egg whites into the lemon mixture.
6) Gently turn the fillin' into the pie shell.
7) Bake for five minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 300�
and bake for another forty-five minutes or 'til the top is golden.
A wooden toothpick inserted in centre should come out clean.
8) Cool pie on a wire rack prior to servin'.

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