Heya

here is my mums recipie for lemon curd:

Ingredients
4 (unwaxed) lemons
250g caster sugar
125g butter
4 (beaten) eggs
something sterile to store it in!

1) Finely grate the zest of four unwaxed lemons into a bowl. Then squeeze the juice out of the lemons into the same bowl.

2) add 250g of Caster Sugar and 125g of Butter to the bowl.

3) Place the bowl over a pan of gently boiling water (a ban marie) and melt the butter and sugar.

4)Add 4 beaten eggs and stir the mixture for a half an hour until you have a thick curd ready to be pured into two sterilised jam jars.

The curd is fresh for about a month (if it's kept in the fridge!) but will probaly be used up sooner - lemon tarts, lemon curd on toast and lemon meringue!!

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