Lemon Pie – Creamy – No Bake – The Hillbilly Kitchen

howdy folks and welcome to the hillbilly
kitchen today we’re going to be making
an easy lemon cream pie that is perfect
for the fourth of July or any summer
get-together
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okay to make the basic pie you’re gonna
need about three lemons you want to
squeeze them and zest them and I’ve
already got that done you need a half a
cup of lemon juice and you’re going to
put about a tablespoon or two of lemon
zest in it now the lemon zest is
important because it has the lemon oil
in it which has the scent and we taste
with our nose and with our tongues so if
it smells more like lemon it’s going to
taste more like lemon but the zest is
also loaded with flavor and you need a
14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk
you do want to make sure you do
sweetened condensed milk because if your
pile and get thick without it and this
is the only thing that sweetens this pie
and you need 8 ounces of cream cheese
sit it out of fridge and money get soft
and I’m using the vanilla wafer pie
crust you can use any no-bake pie crust
you want graham cracker you could even
make a crust out of some little lemon
cookies if you wanted to and because I’m
decorating this for the 4th of July I
have some blueberries and raspberries
and I have some stabilized whipped cream
here you don’t have to have any of this
this is just a decorator and you could
use it for July 4th for Independence Day
for Veterans Day or any time you’re
doing something with a patriotic theme
the raspberries do go really really good
with the lemon you could also use
strawberries with this to decorate it
for a patriotic holiday because they’re
red
but let’s get our pie made like I said
this is easy it really only has three
ingredients and you just put it all in
your mixer
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I’m just going to do a good heaping
tablespoon of this lemon zest here
that’s plenty
a stain makes our buzz work best for
this or at least a hand mixer with the
little whisk beaters on it I tried one
with my hand mixer and I do not have the
whisk beaters for my hand mixer and it
didn’t cream it real real well so you
definitely want whisk beaters if you
have them for this whether you’re using
a stand mixer or a hand mixer okay it
isn’t much of that out of there as you
can hang on to your spatula you’re going
to need it
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you’re going to want to scrape your bowl
a couple of times when you make this
because the cream cheese and the milk
are gonna try to stick to the sides of
the bowl and then when you dump your pie
out in your pie shell you’ll have lumps
in it if you don’t do this okay scrape
it one more time at least and we’ll see
what it looks like after we mix it again
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okay that looks pretty good
you do want to be it until it’s really
really creamy but you can see here on my
mixer whisk how I’ve still got a few
little lumps well you’re not going to
get it perfectly smooth because it has
that lemon zest in there and there’s
also some lemon pulp in it where you
squeeze the lemons so it’s not going to
be perfectly smooth no matter how long
you beat it but you do want to beat it
until you have all those cream cheese
lumps mixed in good and you’ve got the
milk mixed good with the cream cheese
you don’t have any of that left slim up
the sides of your bowl or anything like
that okay dump it in your pie shell and
like I said you can choose any pie shell
you want you can make it yourself or you
can get one ready-made if you’re in a
big hurry I do recommend the fresh
squeezed and the lemons though because
that’s the only way you’re gonna get
that exist okay now to set this pie up
you could either put it in the freezer
for about half an hour if you’re in a
hurry to get it made or you can put it
in the refrigerator overnight at least
three or four hours because it is a
little bit running that you’re not gonna
be able to scoop it out of your pie pan
like this but once it’s in the fridge
for a few hours or in there or in the
freezer for just half an hour that cream
cheese and the condensed milk will
thicken up and you’ll be able to slice
it and decorate it now I did this one
last night and I just put it in the
refrigerator overnight and you can see
it’s thick not going anywhere you do not
have to put anything else on this pie
not even whipped cream is absolutely
perfect just like this you can add just
some fresh whipped cream to it if you
want and serve it like that if you’re
just doing it for and everyday cookout
a quick summer dessert or like I said if
you want to do something patriotic some
red and blueberries blueberries are
about the only blueberry you could use
raspberries or strawberries you could
just do some dollop of whipped cream and
then put the berries around it on each
slice you could arrange them in a star
pattern literally anything you want I
don’t know how much luck you would have
making individual little stars on each
piece because the berries are too big
but it’s pretty easy to do a star the
stars on the flag have five points and a
five point star is usually the easiest
to make and the blueberries are the
easiest to start your pattern with a lot
of times when I’m decorating the dessert
I’ll take a toothpick and I’ll draw my
pattern on my dessert before I start
doing it and that makes it easier to and
I really should’ve done that this time
but because we’re using berries we can
move them around a little bit and fix
mistakes now if you’re decorating this
pie with berries you don’t want to do it
ahead of time because the sugar in the
pie will cause the berries the juice and
the berries to come out and they will
run and bleed on your pie so save the
decorating until right before you’re
going to serve it and if you’re
decorating it with berries and whipped
cream and stuff you definitely want to
use stabilized whipped cream and it will
hold its shape and it won’t get watery
you can also use the cans of like rady
whip or something again if you’re in a
hurry but keep in mind if you’re serving
this outside this is milk and you don’t
want to leave it sitting outside for too
long
make everybody sick because it will
continue to look fine even after the
heat gets to it and it’s no longer safe
to eat my goodness my star is not taking
shape should have done the toothpick
trick
you know while you’re celebrating this
4th of July at least remember what the
holidays name really is 4th of July is
Independence Day in 1776 our founding
fathers got together and signed the
Declaration of Independence declaring
our independence from Great Britain
because of atrocities that the king was
committing against the colonists so it
kind of drives me crazy when people say
call Independence Day the 4th of July
it’s more than just the 4th of July
it truly is our country’s birthday and
for nearly 250 years we have existed as
an independent nation that was founded
based on the concept that all men are
created equal and endowed by their
creator with certain inalienable and a
sacred honor to achieving our
independence and as we are coming into
another election here in this country
and the campaigning has already started
I see very few candidates with any honor
at all and I certainly see a lot of
candidates who are not giving their
fortunes for the sake of our country’s
independence
in our rights but I see a lot of
candidates who are gaining fortunes off
of our efforts they’re elected in the
office with a nearly zero self-worth
self-worth I guess it’s what you call it
their financial worth is next to nothing
they get paid $150,000 a year and in
just a couple of years they’re living in
multimillion-dollar mansions now the way
I handle money that just is not possible
and I don’t see how it’s possible for
anybody else either so as we go into
this next election here
I want you to definitely vote to
preserve your freedom but more than that
I want you to look at those candidates
who are looking for divine providence
who are seeking God’s guidance and
intervention and you seek God’s guidance
as you select a candidate when you go
vote in this next election are all the
candidates I mean not only is our
president for re-election but we have
several members of Congress that are
going to be up for reelection and even
in our state and local governments it is
important that we have people in who
have honor and we have people in who are
seeking God not seeking their own
fortunes and with that being said please
please celebrate Independence Day this
year not just the fourth of July
remember the sacrifices that were made
for our country so that we could have
our god-given rights anyway this is what
the pie looks like decorated and like I
said I shouldn’t use the toothpick trick
to get my star a little bit straighter
but it still looks like a star it’s very
red light blue and very patriotic
so I hope you give this a trial north of
July or like I said any time you’re
getting together it is super easy it is
really good and there just is nothing
better on a hot day than a big slice of
lemon pie thanks for joining us in the
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God first
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