How to Make Lemon Curd

How to make lemon curd for fillings in tarts or tartlets. Easy recipe for spreads on toast and flavors for cakes, cookies and desserts.

How to make lemon curd

Some of the ingredients for this tasty and tangy lemon curd. Homemade and used for many tarts or fillings as well as spreads for toast. Follow the No Bake Stove top recipe for best results and keep in fridge for other uses. If you prefer sweeter curd then use a little more sugar in the recipe. But this is supposed to be tangy so use it that way. Some people make tarts out of it. But in South Africa we prefer to use lemons in condensed milk for a lemon meringue tart. This curd could replace that if you prefer.

What can lemon curd be used for?

1. serve on crepes, with yogurt or cream
2. spread on toast or crumpets or pancakes
3. bake in pastry tarts
4. lemon bars
5. lemon curd pie
6. add it in the mixture of cakes or doughs

Is lemon curd the same as lemon jam?

There is a difference to lemon jam or lemon curds. The fruit juice of lemons is cooked down with sugars and butter for the curds. Whereas jams you cook the whole fruits with sugars and then refine them.

How long is lemon curd safe to eat?

Lemon curd should be good if you keep it refrigerated for up to a month while in use. It is also safe to stored in the freezer in a sealed contain for up to a year. To thaw take out and leave in fridge for up to 24 hours for use.

Ingredients

1. lemon zest
2. fresh lemon juice
3. sugar
4. fine salt (don’t use if using salted butter)
5. large eggs and Eggs yolks
6. unsalted butter

For the amounts needed and the full instructions for this lemon curd see the recipe attached. Download it or print it. Even use the “cook mode” for online use while making this easy recipe, the screen will not go dark.

Eggs and egg yolks are needed for the main ingredient.

Zest some lemon skins and make the juice from lemon for the melting of the sugar in a pot.

How To

In a mixing bowl whisk the eggs and yolks very well, then set aside.

In a small pot or sauce pan heat the lemon juice and zest, sugar and salt on a medium heat and stir continually until the sugar has dissolved. Turn off the heat. Add half a cup of this sugar and lemon mixture in the egg mixture whisking all the time.

Then pour this mixture into the pan mixture stirring and whisking all the time to prevent the eggs from curdling. While turning the heat on and whisking until the mixture has thickened. Should take about 5 minutes. take off heat.

Remove from the heat and stir in the butter, until it is completely mixed. Straining the mixture will  remove the lemon zest and any egg solids that may occur in the liquid curd. Pouring this mixture in a bowl and covering it and refrigerating the curd until needed.

This homemade filling saved and covered in a fridge for many uses.

Beautiful yellow and a tangy filling for a great tasting tartlet made with shortbread crust. So delicious and an amazing treat or dessert for tea or coffee with friends.

Lemons make a few amazing dishes and fillings. Even homemade juices. Use them they are great and healthy.

What to do with lemon curd

Use it for topping on many recipes, such as pancakes, scones, waffles, ice cream, cheesecakes, cake fillings, crepes, cookies, meringues, macarons and toast or sandwiches.

The recipe. Download a recipe page to write out your recipe and file them. All one size.

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