[Sca-cooks] lemon curd

[ekoogler1 at comcast.net]

Sorry about that, Selene...but you have to know that my friends (and my husband) LOVE the stuff.  A couple of other things I do is to a)cut back a bit on the sweetening; b) use half Splenda and half suger; and c)use Chambord instead of vanilla...WOW!  

Kiri
> Rats, you have penetrated the inner secret to how nobody makes it like I do.
> <ggg>  Actually, I had not thought of that, it's a great idea and I'll 
> try it out
> sometime Real Soon Now.
> 
> Lemon Crud and Pizelles, hmmm, I do have to bring some perioid nummies 
> for Angels Melee this Sat.....
> 
> Selene C.
> 
> ekoogler1 at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> >I'm uncertain as to why it would be grainy.  I've never had that problem.  How 
> do you make it?  
> >
> >I'm not sure about using artificial sweeteners...but you could experiment with 
> a small batch.  One suggestion...I found that, when I made Selene's Chocolate 
> Mousse, it was grainy.  So I started using the fine sugar...not confectioner's, 
> but the caster sugar (as the Brits refer to it).  That was the perfect solution!
> >
> >Kiri
> >
> >>just made my first batch this weekend.   pretty tasty and nicely tart. 
> >>making the office be my guinea pigs before i do it for the feast (lemon 
> >>curd and scones as well as pizzelles should work nicely).
> >>
> >>wasn't very hard but the texture is a tad grainy.  any suggestions?  has 
> >>anyone tried making it with artificial sweetner like splenda or sugar twin? 
> >>or is the sugar vital to the chemistry?
> >>
> >>cailte
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