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Yesterday, in celebration of Pi(e) Day, I made a key lime pie. I was born in Miami. I am qualified to make a key lime pie. And let me tell you what a real key lime pie is.
1] real key lime pie is yellow, not green.
2] real key lime pie has a graham crust, not a pastry crust.
3] real key lime pie DOES NOT HAVE ANY WHITE STUFF ON IT.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a heathen and should be hogtied to the hood of a car, have a mouth speculum inserted, and get driven up I-75 in the middle of lovebug season.
The Wikipedia page on key lime pie is inaccurate, and I will be making corrections posthaste.
This woman tells it how it is – “Key Lime Pie is Not Green. Unless, of course, you are one of those infidels who puts green food coloring in it. In which case, I am not speaking to you.” She also writes about the history of key lime pie and why it’s made with condensed milk; before the Overseas Highway was built, people in the Keys did not have access to fresh milk. I did not know this, and that makes sense. Key lime pie has been around for a long time, since possibly before the 1900’s – the first permanent European settlers to South Florida and the Keys arrived in the 1800’s. A very interesting read.
Anyway, here is the true recipe.
* 9” graham cracker pie crust
* 14 oz. can of sweetened condensed milk
* 3 egg yolks (whites not used)
* ½ cup key lime juice. You can buy it bottled (Nellie and Joe’s brand is good) or juice fresh ones yourself.
Combine milk, egg yolks and lime juice. Blend until smooth. Pour filling into pie crust and bake at 350º for 15 minutes. Allow to stand 10 minutes before refrigerating.
Glad to see that someone else agrees with my assessment that key lime pie is not green, is not made with pastry crust and does not have weird meringue stuff on it.
My only quibble with your post is that I am a gal, not a guy. (I do cross dress as a guy in Renaissance clothes now and again, but I am not fooling anyone. Everyone knows I just look more dashing in a doublet than a skirt–but it is still obvious that I am indeed female.)
Thanks for the link!
Barbara: sorry for the error; I’ve fixed it in the post. Best, K
is the “white stuff” prohibition aimed solely at meringue, or does it extend to whipped cream?
Vidiot: Some people put whipped cream on it; I personally don’t.
I was born in Key West. Key lime pie originated there, not Miami. The original version is in a pastry crust, since graham cracker ones weren’t common a hundred years ago. They are topped with merigue – period. Monroe County Library has many old books and articles that can verify this. I don’t care what you ate in Miami or the Upper Keys. The commercial places there and even some in Key West serve incorrect KLP. You should do a bit of real reserach before you spread your ignorance.
Marc…you don’t have to be so mean about it…
Marc Averette is correct 100%
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