ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Dinner SOS, check kitchen director and host Chris Morocco is joined by senior check kitchen editor Shilpa Uskokovic to assist caller Erin redeem her baking fame after a Thanksgiving pie gone improper.
Erin signed as much as make a lemon meringue pie at Thanksgiving, however the recipe she selected (clearly not a Bon Appetit recipe) didn’t fairly end up how she needed it to. It wobbled, and in the end changed into lemon meringue soup, fairly than agency into one thing sliceable Chris calls on Shilpa, the baking wizard of the check kitchen, to share some knowledge with Erin—though Shilpa admits, to Chris’s dismay, that she’s not a fan of lemon meringue pie. Shilpa diagnoses that the difficulty Erin bumped into needed to do with starch activation. She explains that for those who don’t prepare dinner egg yolks to a sure temperature, the egg protein doesn’t absolutely denature and continues to eat away on the cornstarch, stopping the pie filling from congealing and setting.
Chris involves battle ready along with his personal Lemon Meringue Pie recipe For Erin, whereas Shilpa searches for a more recent, shinier citrus pie to carry to the showdown. She suggests this Cherry Lemonade Seaside Pie and her personal recipe for Triple Citrus Creamsicle Pie, that are each impressed by the summer time seaside staples. Hear now to listen to whether or not Erin is ready to obtain citrusy pie perfection.
