{"id":4930,"slug":"vanilla-meringue-pie","title":"Vanilla meringue pie","description":"From The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book (1919) by Victor Hirtzler.","ingredients_raw":["Six eggs","one quart of milk","one-quarter pound of sugar","one-half of a vanilla bean","meringue paste","powdered sugar"],"ingredients_norm":["egg","milk","sugar","vanilla bean","meringue paste","powdered sugar"],"steps":["Same as vanilla custard pie, but when baked, cover, and ornament the top with meringue paste, dust with powdered sugar, and put back in oven to color."],"categories":[],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":null,"source_name":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39550","source_ref":"pg:39550:w43:9","authors_url":null,"license":"Public domain (US)","license_url":null,"extraction_confidence":0.9,"content_hash":"7977768a92b88a3e2fb1b5aa7483e16e5940b1ff5a503cc732814e46955fd902","created_at":"2026-08-02T16:40:36Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:32Z","notice":"Historical recipe (1919), reproduced as published: it may reflect its era's ingredients, language, and food-safety practices. Apply modern judgment on cooking temperatures and preservation.","url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/vanilla-meringue-pie"}