Lemon curd - like your Grandma made it.

When I was a kid there would always be some home-made lemon curd for sale at CWA and school fundraisers and if I was lucky Mum would buy me a bottle.
Over the years I've bought a few from the shop but it never ever tastes the same as the home-made stuff so it has occurred to me that the only way I will get my hands on the good lemon curd again is to make it myself.
So I need a recipe.

A tried and true recipe not one from taste or other similar websites that may or may not be yummy. Preferably someone's Grannies' recipe :p

Please.

Is Lemon Curd similar to the stuff you make for Lemon Merigue?

ooohhh - i'll check with my mum & see if she kept my gran's recipe. it was delish! :) (and there's a fair chance it came out of a CWA cookbook - my gran used to go to meetings etc & was a big fan of the CWA!)

If you can't find it Sloane, I have an old CWA cookbook. I am sure there is a recipe for Lemon curd (although I have never made it so can't vouch for it).

On ABC i-view there's a cooking show where she made it last week- Annabel someone.

This is the scrawly, handwritten recipe my Gran gave me years ago:

3 lemons
8 tablespoons or 1 stick (doesn't that tell you how old it is!) unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon peeled and finely minced fresh ginger (optional)
3 eggs

Zest the lemons and then mince the zest finely. Juice the lemons. Combine the zest and juice with the butter and sugar in a small suacepan over very low heat, or in the top of a double boiler over simmering water.

Cook, stirring occasionally, until sugar dissolves. Add ginger if using. Beat the eggs and add to the mixture over very low heat. Cook, stirring constantly until the mixture thickens, about 10 minutes. Do not let mixture boil or the eggs curdle. Cool slightly, and then pour into jars. Allow to cool completely and then refrigerate.

I've done this one a few times ages ago and its pretty yummy. I like the ginger but it does give a different taste. Now I buy the jar of lemon curd from the Margaret River Chocolate Factory, which is seriously delish but glad you posted so I dug this recipe out. Will have to give it another whirl myself.

HTH

Nup I've never found one the same either. My SIL made a beautiful one a couple of years ago. I'll ask her.....and now I really need some.

Note to the pregnant chick...don't open Onyx's threads....you just end up sad and desperate :P