The internet is full of fabulous facts about everything from current events to the history basket weaving and lemon meringue pie fun facts. As we research for our daily content on food trucks, food carts and street food, we stumble upon some items of knowledge that we just did not know.

Because of this, we have decided when these fun facts pop up, that we would share them with our readers in our section titled “Did You Know?”

For today’s Did You Know we will look at Lemon Meringue Pie fun facts.

Lemon Meringue Fun Facts. Lemon meringue pie is a type of baked pie, made with a crust usually made of shortcrust or shortbread pastry, lemon curd filling and a fluffy meringue topping. Also it is prepared with a bottom pie crust. The meringue is placed directly on top of the lemon filling. No upper crust is used.

• The Quakers generally receive credit for inventing lemon custard in the late 1700s. Philadelphian Elizabeth Coane Goodfellow, a pastry chef, businesswoman, and cooking school founder, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1806, expanded on lemon custard and invented lemon meringue pie.
• August 15th is National Lemon Meringue Pie Day.
• Lemon trees bloom and produce fruit year-round. Each tree can produce between 500 and 600 pounds of lemons in a year.
• Add the juice of one lemon to an equal amount of hot water for an anti-bacterial gargle.
• Food historians say lemons have been in cultivation around the Mediterranean from as early as the first century A.D.
• High in vitamin C, lemons prevent scurvy, a disease that causes bleeding gums, loose teeth and aching joints. To this day, the British Navy requires ships to carry enough lemons so that every sailor can have one ounce of juice a day.
• California and Arizona produce 95% of the entire U.S. lemon crop.

Lemon Meringue Pie Fun Facts We Missed

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Reference: Wikipedia: Fun Facts about Lemon Meringue Pie.