Satisfy your sweet tooth.

During the hot summer month in Colorado when I was a little girl, my mother used to make this dessert for her bridge club. A delightfully refreshing dessert is both sweet and tart.

Ingredients:

1 whole egg

2 egg yolks

2 egg whites

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup juice from a lemon

1/4 cup lemon rind grated very fine

1 cup whipping cream (whipped)

1/2 cup crushed vanilla wafers or cookies.

Directions:

1. Butter the sides and bottom of a loaf pan and then coat the sides and bottom with the cookie crumbs. Shake the remaining crumbs into a bowl and save for later. You can also do this in ice cube tray if you like but I prefer the loaf pan.

2. Beat the 1 egg and the 2 egg yolks using a hand mixer on top of a double boiler. Add all but 1 TBS of sugar to the egg mixture, add the lemon juice and the lemon rind, and cook until it is thick.

3. Beat the thickened mixture until it is fluffy. Cool it until it is cold.

4. While your custard mixture is cooling, in a separate bowl beat your egg whites with 1 TBS of sugar until it forms peaks.

5. Fold the stiff egg whites into the cold custard mix and then fold in the whipped cream.

6. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and freeze.

7. Cut into pie shaped pieces or pop them out of the ice tray and enjoy!

I will be making this dessert this weekend for a BBQ and I am sure it will be a great crowd pleaser.