Duncan Hines Comstock Original Lemon Crème Pie Filling and Topping, 21 oz.

I made several pies for Christmas before a guest requested lemon meringue pie. The pudding for the filling takes a long time to make so I searched for a shortcut. Jello brand Cook and Serve Lemon was sold out. But this lemon pudding was nearby. I couldn't get over it, canned pudding? So I decided to try it. I could smell the lemon flavor when opening it. Tasting it though, lacked the tartness I am use to. After adding 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, the flavor was perfect. The texture of the pudding was thick enough for a pie, maybe a little too thick but the lemon juice fixed that as well. The can had instructions on how to put a pie together with this pudding. I was grateful for that because homemade pudding is usually hot when I add it to a pie shell %26 top it with meringue. It made a beautiful dessert and I was pleased with the outcome. There are 2 ways to improve this product. 1) make it tart. 2) put another 1/4 cup of pudding in the can to fill a 9” pie plate to the top. My meringue looked lacking because most of it was below the top, where extra pudding should be. Overall, this canned pudding gave my guest the flavor he wanted. And not one person asked me what I did different to the Lemon Meringue Pie this year.