Lovwely luscious lemon curd (Lemon Curd)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Lemon Curd
Date:	04/02/06 (242 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: lemony

Disadvantages: calories

Lovely luscious lemon curd.

I love the taste of lemon curd. I am eating a lemon curd sandwich now. The lemon curd I have on my bread is Tescos cost 51p for 411g. This is not their value or their finest range but standard Tesco lemon curd.The finest costs £1.02, the value 38p.

I have tasted better more luxurious lemon curds but this one suits me fine.
This lemon curd smells lemony. It is a fairly thick smooth curd. It tastes delicious and lemony tangy sweet yet has that sharp fresh lemon taste.

I think lemon curd goes best with white bread if you are making a sandwich of it.
I use lemon curd in cooking, sometimes making lemon curd tarts or lemon curd shortbreads.
It is excellent used in a plain sandwich cake with some cream.
I use it spread thinly over Christmas cake before I put the marzipan on.

Lemon curd is on sale in most supermarkets. My mum used to make her own and it was gorgeous lovely and tangy. Her recipe is: -


4 lemons or oranges, for orange curd
450g sugar,
5 eggs,
225g butter,

Thinly peel the rind and squeeze the juice from the fruit.
Place the rind and juice into a double boiler (a bowl placed over a saucepan of boiling water).
Add the sugar and butter, cook over a low heat until the sugar is fully dissolved.
Remove from the heat and blend with the strained and beaten eggs.
Return to the low heat and cook until the curd will coat the back of a spoon.
Pot and seal as for jam.
Keeps for 2 weeks or 4 weeks if kept in a refrigerator

I remember my mums cakes covered with this for Sunday tea yummy.

Summary: A good basic lemon curd