key lime pie and other conversions

[Guest guest]

Probably seems like an odd time of year for key lime pie, except that it's still

hot here!

90 degrees F outside right now.

I don't eat gluten, but I do eat dairy. Recently, my husband Mike converted the

key lime pie recipe from the Joy of Cooking (1970s version), with these

substitutions:

18 oz heavy cream (used Straus) boiled down to 14 oz (approximate)

1 cup sugar cooked with the cream (he used evaporated cane sugar,

not the brown Rapadura/Sucanat, but you could use the latter)

juice of 12 Mexican/key limes (a LOT of lime juice) + the amount of rind

specified in the recipe

more heavy cream (Straus) whipped for topping

He used the almond version of the hazelnut pie crust in NT.

This resulted in a little overflow - a small key lime pudding, if you will.

Very tart without

the crust and whipped cream topping!

And then...the pie mixture looked very liquid as it cooled. After a night in

the

refrigerator, though, it came out to the appropriate consistency (surprisingly)

and

held firm enough to cut into slices. We piled the whipped cream on by the

slice.

VERY rich, obviously - keeps you from eating too much

The crust was wonderful with the key lime pie. It had a " cookie " kind of flavor

to it.

I'd prefer it in place of graham cracker crust, even if I were able to eat that.

Oh, and

Mike used " white " sugar there too...sure, it was full of sugar, but so full of

fat too.

And it's also not raw.

He's made sweet potato pie before substituting cream directly for the evaporated

milk

in this recipe:

http://members.aol.com/horizon012/Pie/index.html

Of course, there's a pumpkin pie recipe in NT. That sweet potato pie recipe

listed above

works well because it specifies the amount of yams (3 pounds).

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I saw an old post about the Barefoot Contessa's frozen key lime pie, which we

haven't

tried and I didn't see before our present key lime pie, but here's the updated

URL - the old

one isn't working anymore. Be sure to reconstruct if it gets broken across

lines.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/frozen-key-lime-pie-

recipe/index.html

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in Chandler, AZ