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Keep the rest of the recipe and instructions the same. This easy homemade lemon curd needs only four ingredients and has all the tangy, sweet, bright and delicious flavor you could ever ask for! Lemon curd isn't hard to make from scratch! The reward is a spread that's smooth, creamy, sweet, and tart.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook lemon curd using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Curd:
- Prepare 6 medium sized lemons,
- Take 8 egg yolks
- Make ready 1 whole egg
- Make ready 1 cup sugar
- Take 1 good pinch of sea salt flakes
- Take 1 1/2 stick unsalted butter , in small pieces
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- Prepare 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.
- Get 1 wax paper disk, or small piece plastic wrap
- Make ready 1 cellophane jar cover and elastic or lid to fit the jar
Perfect on toast, scones, hot buttered crumpets or rippled through ice cream. 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. It's great for dipping shortbread cookies in, adding to.
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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