{"id":1797,"slug":"key-lime-meringue-pie","title":"Key Lime Meringue Pie","description":"Key lime pie is made of Key lime juice, eggs, condensed milk, and sugar in a pre-baked pie shell. The pie is then baked, and often topped with meringue or whipped cream. Other recipes (with slightly different ingredients) call for it to be chilled or frozen, using an unbaked Graham cracker crust. This makes it a popular summer dessert. The dish is named after the small Key limes (Citrus aurantifolia 'Swingle') that are naturalized throughout the Florida Keys. Their ferocious thorns make them less tractable and their thin yellowish rind makes them less shippable, but they are both tarter and more aromatic than the common Persian limes seen year-round in most U.S. grocery stores.","ingredients_raw":["1 fully-baked 9-inch (25 cm / 9 oz) graham cracker or pastry pie shell","1 can (14 oz / 400 g) sweetened condensed milk","½ cup fresh Key lime juice","4 egg yolks","4 egg whites","½ cup caster sugar"],"ingredients_norm":["fully baked inch graham cracker or pastry pie shell","sweetened condensed milk","fresh key lime juice","egg yolk","egg white","superfine sugar"],"steps":["Separate egg whites from egg yolks. Make sure there is no trace of yolk in the whites.","Beat the sweetened condensed milk, lime juice, and egg yolks in a small mixing bowl.","Pour the mixture into the baked pie shell. Bake at 350°F (180°C) for 8 minutes.","While baking filling, whip egg whites in a large, clean mixer bowl on high speed until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in the sugar until meringue forms hard peaks.","Spoon the meringue over the top of the hot pie and use a spoon to form peaks.","Bake at 350°F (180°C) for 10–15 minutes, or until meringue begins to brown."],"categories":["Recipes for dessert","Southern U.S. recipes","Recipes for pies and tarts","Recipes using lime juice","Baking recipes","Recipes for meringue","Recipes using egg","Recipes using superfine sugar","Recipes using sweetened condensed milk","Recipes using graham cracker","Recipes using meringue"],"prep_time_minutes":15,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":135,"servings":"8","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Key_Lime_Meringue_Pie","source_ref":"4629295","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Key_Lime_Meringue_Pie&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"db13b32dda14d18787b9f87d90523caa92c127eaf105c27677a4a0935148e762","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:06Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/key-lime-meringue-pie"}