In about year three of marriage I decided to attempt a lemon meringue pie as dessert for company that night. I had my recipe at hand, all the ingredients, ready to bake! I knew what the filling was supposed to look like so I forged ahead. Not bothering to read the full recipe ahead of time I thought the filling was yellow from the lemon juice. I added the prescribed amount, not yellow enough, more lemon juice and so on until I finally decided that was enough and it would be a colorless pie. I did finally add the egg yolks and got the proper yellow. I baked it, it was lovely to behold however the proof was in the eating! SOUR with a capital S. We ate what we could of it and all had a big chuckle. I still make that pie, 40 years later, from the same recipe and everyone always loves it.

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