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Key lime pie safety question

Posted by yayfood, July 1, 2009

I'm thinking of making key lime pie to bring to a barbecue this weekend and I'm seeing a lot of recipes that call for a few egg yolks, lime juice, sugar and sweetened condensed milk to be mixed, poured into the crust and frozen. But the yolks aren't getting cooked, just frozen.

How is this different from eating raw yolks? Does the sugar and lime kill off any bacteria?

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