If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemon Curd

Last weekend, lemons were on sale at $0.99 per kilo.  They are usually $2.99 or more per kilo. So I decided to get some.

I had a couple of ideas of what to do with the lemons.  I considered making lemon roast chicken but was really more inclined towards lemon squares, lemon delicious  and lemon pound cake.   

On Tuesday, I decided I wanted to get the lemons moving.  A quick check after dinner revealed that we had breaded chicken pieces in the freezer and two whole chickens and about a kilo of chicken thighs marinating in the ref.  There goes my lemon roast chicken.  (I didn't want the children growing wings, you know.)

Lemon squares is something I have done many times in the past, unlike lemon delicious and lemon pound cake.  I was more or less familiar with the time it would take to get it done (considering the next day was a workday.)

"Should I make lemon squares?I like lemon squares."

MyGirl immediately called out her objection, "I don't like lemon squares."

So there I was with a bagful of lemons and my initial ideas had been thrown out the window.   Fortunately, i had just come across a recipe for lemon curd and had written it down in one of my recipe notebooks.  Perhaps it was fate.   It was time to experiment and make lemon curd.

I didn't realise it was so easy to make lemon curd.  

Essentially it just takes the juice and grated rind of two lemons combined with 1/4 cup of butter and 1/2 cup of sugar over a double boiler.  Once the sugar melts, add 2 well-beaten eggs and mix until the curd coats the back of the spoon.

Voila!  Lemon curd.

I loved it. 

MyGirl found it too sour.  RD was quite disappointed since it looked deceptively like the  brazo de mercedes filling, yet it was not (as) sweet.

Fortunately, MacGyver appreciated the experiment.  He and I had it on toast after dinner for the next few days.  Yum!

(I decided to make lemon pound cake today, only to discover that the recipe called for lemon extract instead of a real lemon.)