Irma's Recipes

After my mother, Irma, died, somehow I ended up with her three file card boxes of recipes. Over the years since, I've expected that one of these days, both my sisters would visit me at the same time and we would divide up the recipes. But I've come to realize that they should stay together and end up in the custody of one of my nieces or nephews. And that they should be available online to all of Mom's family and friends--and to anyone who happens to be searching for something she cooked.

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Monday, August 8, 2011

Birthday Pie

But if we'd said yes to pie, she might have made this, for which there are three cards:

Key Lime Pie

3 egg yolks
1 c. condensed milk* Mix

Add 3 oz lime juice a little at a time
Pour into crust (Graham crax)

3 egg whites
1/4 tsp cr tartar **
6 T sugar

Bake @ 425 5-6 min

*The other card calls for 1 can--
**--and for 1/2 tsp cr of tartar

Mom also had a clipping of Lee Bailey's Key lime pie recipe from "Country Weekends" (published by Clarkson Potter), which uses a pre-baked pie shell instead of a Graham cracker crust. The filling takes a can of condensed milk, 1/2 c. of lime juice, and 2 egg whites but no yolks, and is unbaked.