Schwan's Company, parent company of Schwan's Consumer Brands, Inc., purchased The Edwards Baking Company in September, 2001. Today the makers of EDWARDS® products are still committed to providing consumers with convenient, great-tasting frozen desserts made with premium, high-quality ingredients.

What many folks don't know is that lemon meringue pie is actually a Philadelphia invention born out of the Victorian-era, courtesy of Mrs. Elizabeth Goodfellow, a 19th century pastry shop proprietress who ran America's first cooking school. This classic pie of contrasting sweet-tart layers evolved from one of Mrs.

They have discontinued their "flagship" pie that has set the standard for years and many cooks have bought! Very disappointing! I've been looking for the lemon meringue with no luck for the last year. Plenty of key lime which is ok but the lemon meringue is my favorite.

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Edwards was founded in Atlanta, Georgia, where it has a rich 70-year history and where its factory remains to this day, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Lemon meringue pie is an American innovation, one that's more than 200 years old. Although this long-time diner staple, lemony custard piled high with fluffy meringue, has the look of something that might have emerged in the Pillsbury Bake-Off in the mid-20th century, its roots go much deeper than that.

Lemon meringue pie is a dessert pie consisting of a shortened pastry base filled with lemon curd and topped with meringue.

The origin of meringue It was invented in 1720 by the Swiss pastry chef Gasparini, although some sources say it already existed then and was only improved by this illustrious chef. French and Italian chefs each created their own version, so today there are three different types of meringue: French, Italian, and Swiss.

All in all, 42 million pies a year leave this industrial enclave among the leafy streets of residential Atlanta. The Edwards pie factory occupies a fenced-in plant in the Edgewood neighborhood, so close to the railroad tracks that twice trains have crashed through its windows.

The first documented recipe for a dessert that combined lemon custard with meringue was published in the United States in 1847. The cookbook "The Lady's Receipt Book" by Eliza Leslie featured a recipe called "lemon pie" that called for a lemon custard filling topped with a meringue made from egg whites and sugar.

Our two slices of EDWARDS® Chocolate Crème Pie are made with luscious layers of chocolate and vanilla crème filling, then topped with chocolate drizzle, chocolate chips, and whipped crème rosettes. Simply thaw and enjoy a slice or two!

Bairnsdale About an hour's drive south-east of Melbourne is a manufacturing site that currently houses the largest pie-maker in the world, Patties Foods. About two hundred and twenty kilometres east is their other site, in Bairnsdale.