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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?
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On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:01:30 -0600, 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?

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.
--

modom

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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

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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.