LEMON MERINGUE PIE

1 tablespoon flour (or cornstarch)
3/4 cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 egg yolks
1 egg white
Juice of 2 or 3 lemons
1 cup water
1 unbaked pastry shell
2 egg whites
1/2 cup sugar

Mix one heaping tablespoon flour (or slightly less) with sugar and salt. Add the well beaten 3 egg yolks and 1 egg white, the juice of 2 or 3 lemons, and 1 cup water. Combine well.

Pour into unbaked pastry shell and bake in moderate oven.

Beat whites of 2 eggs with 1/2 cup sugar until very stiff. Pile roughly on pie; return to oven and brown meringue slightly.