Reviewed: Apr. 22, 2012

Prior to a Easter I had never heard of this pie, but made it upon special request. I was told it was delicious, but the reason for 3 stars was I had to make a few modifications. I am a trained pastry chef and in my opinion, the meringue on the pie (as stated) was horrible and flat. I substituted a 'regular' meringue recipe and it was great. Also, I added 1 cup sugar and 1/3t. cinnamon because the nutmeg overpowered the custard.

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Crystle S.

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Flushing, Michigan, USA

Living In: Minot, North Dakota, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 28, 2012

Wonderful and so easy. I did split cinnamon and the nutmeg. I will omit the lemon juice though. It lends too much tartness for the taste I was looking for. Save this one for sure. Oh, I also replaced the meringue for real whipped cream. Yumm!!

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jsaylor

Reviewed: Oct. 4, 2011

SO good! My family thought I was weird for making this old lady pie, but I loved eating it with my great aunt and wanted to share it with my family. They loved it too! You can't find it in restaurants, so I'm glad I found such a great recipe =) I considered soaking the raisins in rum or something... must try next time.

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Andrea

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Seattle, Washington, USA

Reviewed: Jun. 18, 2011

Very good recipe...the only thing I changed was instead of 3/4 t nutmeg I put equal parts of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg...my dad really liked this pie!

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sisternanna

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Mar. 14, 2011

I thought this was a wonderful pie, better than my mother-in-laws (shh don't tell her)

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AndreaRT

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Waterloo, Iowa, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 20, 2011

Good, but VERY sweet. I didn't grow up with this as many reviewers did, so it wasn't exactly to my taste, but I can see how others would love it.

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Candace

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Bridgeville, Delaware, USA

Living In: Jerome, Arizona, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 11, 2010

This is the Recipe I have been looking for! the only change I would make is a little less sugar it was pretty sweet, but was vary flavorfull thank you Susan

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roadmaintainer

Reviewed: Dec. 2, 2010

Delicious, but a little too sweet for my taste. Next time I'll cut the sugar back a little. The meringue was better than any I've ever made. I'll use this recipe for all my merengue pies. Great recipe!

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Chef Bob

Reviewed: Dec. 1, 2010

Very good. Next time, would probably soak raisins in rum or brandy and half sugar. Otherwise, awesome.

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Adria

Reviewed: Nov. 26, 2010

The custard is absolutely delicious, especially if you love nutmeg. However the pie all together is much too sweet. I couldn’t even finish one slice! I am going to try reducing the sugar in the meringue as well as cutting the raisins down to ¾ a cup. I hope this helps cut the sweetness enough because it has potential of becoming one of my favorite pies!

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