Lemon Curd from ASC

This recipe comes from Anne Foulds, Activities Coordinator at ASC in Balbeggie. Her love of baking came from growing up on a farm. “My mum baked every day and taught me how to bake,” she says. Now Anne is passing on her skills to ASC’s service users.

But while she inherited many family recipes from previous generations, Anne was the first in her family to make lemon curd, so this recipe is all hers!

Ingredients

Ingredients 4 lemons, zest and juice

200g/7oz caster sugar

100g/3½oz unsalted butter, cut into cubes

3 free-range eggs, plus 1 free-range egg yolk

Method

To prepare the jars, preheat the oven to 140C.

Wash the jars well in warm soapy water then rinse thoroughly under running water.

Leave the jars and lids to dry, upside down, in the oven, this sterilises your jars.

Put the lemon zest and juice, sugar and butter into a heatproof bowl. Sit the bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering water, making sure the water is not touching the bottom of the bowl. Stir the mixture every now and again until all of the butter has melted.

Lightly whisk the eggs and egg yolk and stir them into the lemon mixture. Whisk until all of the ingredients are well combined, then leave to cook for 10–13 minutes, stirring every now and again, until the mixture is creamy and thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.

Remove the lemon curd from the heat and set aside to cool, stirring occasionally as it cools.

Once cooled, spoon the lemon curd into sterilised jars and seal.

Keep in the fridge until ready to use.