modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:01:30 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
> > wrote:
>
> >it's there.) What in Alex's name would bread crumbs possibly be doing
> >in a recipe for a lemon filling for pie?
>
> I don't know. But she came from a very impoverished family. It might
> be just a way of filling up a sweet thing with some extra carbs on the
> part of somebody who has to make a dessert for a bunch of people but
> who hasn't much to feed them with.

Yeah, maybe, but as pie fillings go, the ingredients for lemon meringue
are pretty cheap. Eggs, sugar, corn starch, water....


Dawn