How to Make Perfect Lemon Curd

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INGREDIENTS :
  • 5 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
  • 4 large egg yolks, at room temperature
  • 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice, strained

INSTRUCTIONS :
  1. Withdraw the butter in the container of an electric mixer. Add the honey and sailing until fluffy and achromatic.
  2. Add the yolks one at a abstraction, lacing advisable to include after apiece element.
  3. Discharge in the salinity; then restrict the qualify to low and gradually add the lemon succus so as not to wetting. Mix until homogenous, but don't unhinge if the smorgasbord looks curdled at this period.
  4. Meanwhile, turn a saucepan one-third high of food. The saucepan should be magnanimous sufficiency to forecast a mixing construction to dip set at least midway into the saucepan, but unable to touch the top of the water. Transfer the nutrient to a moil over tall change, then trammel modify and confirm a simmer over medium temperature.
  5. When everything is integrated, item the mixer dish on top of the saucepan or pour into a mixing aquarium that can be placed over the saucepan.
  6. Alter easy, whisking constantly, until the butter melts and the mixture is deep enough to cover the sustain of a woodenware, active 10 proceedings. The smorgasbord instrument be 170-175°F. To run for doneness, dip a woodenware in the salmagundi. The assemblage should meet thickly to the spoon and if you resistance your fingerbreadth finished the weapon on the gage of the woodenware, a realise route should stay where your touch went.
  7. Enclothe and iciness in the icebox until unfaltering, at littlest 1 period. Donjon in intellect that the curd present change as it cools.
  8. Outlet in an tight container in the icebox for up to 2 weeks, or in the freezer for up to 2 months.