Old-Fashioned Lemon Chess Pie

* Exported from MasterCook *

Old-Fashioned Lemon Chess Pie

Recipe By : Taste of Home
Serving Size : 16 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : All Newly Typed Not Shared Dessert

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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2 lemons
1/2 cup butter
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
2 unbaked pie crusts

Grate entire peel off the two lemons and squeeze all the juice; set aside.
Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. By hand, mix in
lemon juice and rind until smooth. Divide mixture into two unbaked pie
crusts. Bake at 425 until edges of filling begin to brown (watch
carefully!). Reduce oven temperature to 300. When top of pie begins to
brown, turn off oven and open oven door. Leave pie in oven until oven is
cool. Makes 2 9 inch pies.

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