Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon curd. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Make sure you are constantly whisking as the mixture thickens. Lemon curd is such an easy thing to make and delicious on just about everything! It's sweet, tart Lemon curd is a tasty addition to many things.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon curd using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Curd:
- Take 6 medium sized lemons,
- Prepare 8 egg yolks
- Make ready 1 whole egg
- Get 1 cup sugar
- Make ready 1 good pinch of sea salt flakes
- Take 1 1/2 stick unsalted butter , in small pieces
- Take What you will also need
- Take 3 cup hot water
- Take 1 tsp white vinegar
- Take 3 cup (28 oz.) capacity jar -something between a pint jar and a quart jar.
- Take 1 wax paper disk, or small piece plastic wrap
- Make ready 1 cellophane jar cover and elastic or lid to fit the jar
Lemon curd is a popular condiment for afternoon tea and is used similarly to jam or custard. It is a sweet, tangy topping with a strong lemon taste (much stronger than, say, a lemon custard). Lemon curd isn't hard to make from scratch! The reward is a spread that's smooth, creamy, sweet, and tart.
Instructions to make Lemon Curd:
- Heat oven to 200C
- Wash jar and put it in the oven (without its lid) for 10-20 minutes
- Carefully remove it from the oven and set it aside.
- Pour hot water over the lemons in a large bowl, add the vinegar and let stand for 30 seconds. This is to remove any wax or detritus from the lemon skin, and releases more juice from the lemons.
- Dry the lemons, then zest them and then juice them (you will use both)
- In a medium saucepan, whisk the eggs and sugar lightly.
- Put the pan on a medium low heat, and add the juice and zest, followed by the butter and salt
- Bring it up to a simmer and stir it with the whisk until it thickens up (about 15-20 minutes)
- Pour it through a sieve with quite a wide mesh into a jug, then pour into the jar.
- Wipe away any spilt curd, place the wax disk on top wax side down, then set aside to cool.
- Add the lid or cellophane cover, a label (if you want) and refridgerate until cold.
- Will keep for two weeks in the fridge.
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