Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> I've never been able to play the annual game before.
> Rob gave me Maya Angelou's "Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of
> Memories with Recipes." I'm enjoying it more for the narratives than
> the recipes, I think.
>
> I'm very curious about the first recipe in the book. It's for lemon
> meringue pie that contains something like 1-1/2 cups soft bread crumbs
> in the filling. HUH? (I don't have the book at hand at the moment, but
> it's there.) What in Alex's name would bread crumbs possibly be doing
> in a recipe for a lemon filling for pie?


As a child I had a book, Puenktchen Und Anton, by Erich Kaestner.
Anton is being raised by a single mother and they are very poor.
Puenktchen comes from a very well to do family.

Since Anton's mother works, Anton starts dinner before she comes home
and one day prepares some eggs for scrambling them later. He adds
flour to the egg and milk mixture and when Puenktchen ask him "Why?",
he simply tells her "So there will be more", which may account for the
bread crumbs in the lemon meringue pie.