Heavenly Helpings:
Your Angel Recipes

A Note From Marilynn Carlson Webber
(a.k.a. The Angel Lady):

I learned to cook as a minister’s wife. My Swedish mother was a fabulous cook and taught me what good food was. But she never taught me to cook!

Through the years my husband [William D. Webber] pastored seven churches, beginning with one of the smallest in our denomination and later becoming the pastor of large congregations.

I have found many “angels” in the churches we served. They were so encouraging and helpful, and many of them could cook. Usually when I asked for their heavenly recipes they shared them gladly. Sometimes I was only entrusted with a special secret recipe when we moved on to another church.

[I pay] tribute to the great cooks who have opened their hearts and homes, practiced the gift of hospitality, and shared their heavenly recipes.

Lemon Angel Pie * Recipes From Our Readers
Lemon Angel Pie

For the Crust

Ingredients
4 egg whites
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
1 cup of sugar (a scant amount)

Add cream of tartar to partly beaten egg whites. Beat the mixture until stiff.

Add sugar in four parts, beating until stiff and glossy.

Spread the mixture evenly in a well-greased pie pan, filling up to the side.

Bake the pie for one hour in a 275-degree F oven or until the edges are golden brown.

Set aside to cool.

For the Pie Filling
4 egg yolks
½ cup of sugar
3 tablespoons of lemon juice
2 teaspoons of lemon rind
1 cup of cream
Any type of nuts (garnish optional)

Mix all the ingredients together and cook the mixture in a double boiler until thick and smooth. Set aside the mixture to cool.

Whip the cream and spread half of it over the crust in the pie pan.

Add the lemon filling on top. Spread the remaining cream on top of the lemon filling.

Let the pie set for 24 hours in the refrigerator.

When serving the pie, garnish it with nuts if so desired.

~Marilynn Carlson Webber

Recipes From Our Readers
Besides angels, everyone enjoys food. We asked our readers for their favorite recipes that pay homage to angels. Here are their delicious choices, enough to put together a feast with the angels.

Appetizer

Angel Eggs

Main Course

Heavenly Potato Chip Casserole

Golden Angel Mushroom Chicken

Dessert

Angel Fruit Trifle

Loving Angels Cheesecake

Grandma Trudy's Celestial Peanut Butter Bon Bons

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