Eagle Brand Key Lime Pie

Ingredients

• 1 (9- or 10-inch) baked pastry shell or graham cracker crumb crust
• 6 egg yolks
• 2 (14-ounce) cans Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk)
• 1 (8-ounce) bottle ReaLime lime juice from concentrate
• Yellow or green food coloring (optional)
• Whipped cream or whipped topping

Steps

1. Heat the oven to 325°.
2. In a large mixer bowl, beat the egg yolks with the sweetened condensed milk, the lime juice and a little food coloring if you like.
3. Pour into the prepared crust and bake 40 minutes.
4. Cool, then chill.
5. Top with whipped cream, garnish as you like, and refrigerate leftovers.

Notes

Makes one 9- or 10-inch pie.

Smaller pie: with a frozen pie shell or a 6-ounce packaged graham cracker crumb crust, use 1 can sweetened condensed milk, 3 egg yolks and 1/2 cup lime juice, and bake 30 minutes.

The card says to use only clean, uncracked Grade A eggs.

Printed Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk recipe card (Borden), with ReaLime; directions written in our own words.

Rosie Lee’s original recipe card

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