[Sca-cooks] lemon curd

[Susan Fox-Davis]

I have performed the Lemon Curd experiment tonight.

Batch 1:
1 stick unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice
3 eggs

Sets up nicely, but awfully mild.

Batch 2:

1 stick unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup lemon juice
3 eggs

Woot!  That's better.  Tangy!

These two will get taken to Angels Melee this weekend.  The "mild" 
batch might wind up as the filling in cookie bars for the lunch sale.

Batch 3:

1 stick unsalted butter
1 cup lemon juice
3 eggs
8 packets Splenda [tm]

Very nice.  Recipe called for 6-8 packets sweetener but 10 might not be 
out of line. Like I thought, resembles a sweetened Hollandaise, lacking 
the "transparency" of the sugar-sweetened version.

The things I do for kitchen science!  Pizelle will be made tomorrow.

Selene Colfox
selene at earthlink.net