Passionfruit Butter and Luscious Lemon Curd



We have a fundraising stall on Saturday so I am working through the things I have a glut of to make items to sell. Eggs of every description, duck, turkey and chicken in abundance and still the lemon trees is loaded so I thought i would make some Lemon curd. this is a really nice recipe;

Ingredients
8 eggs (I used duck eggs) 
juice of six lemons
400 grams of sugar
200 grams of butter

Method
  I like to whisk the eggs and then strain them
Then add the strained lemon juice
cubed butter
and sugar
place in a glass or stainless steel bowl over a pot of boiling water and stir from time to time for about fifteen minutes or until you have a nice smooth consistency.
then put into sterilised jars, seal and refrigerate. It keeps well in the fridge for quite a few weeks.

I also remembered that I have loads of passion fruit pulp in the freezer and as summer fruit is almost upon us thought I should use some up. So I made some passion fruit butter. I like this recipe as it is not too sweet.
Ingredients
2 cups passionfruit pulp
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
30 grams butter
1/4 cup lemon juice.
As with the recipe above place all in a bowl over a pot of boiling water and stir from time ti time until thick. this takes longer than the Lemon curd as it doesn't have as many eggs.


Comments

Anonymous said…
New for me..the passionfruitbutter.Will pen it down as I have abandunace of passion fruit for quite a while when it is in season:) Lemon curd ..jyes still have enough..my Meyer lemon trees are also fruiting almost year around;))
Greta job:)
October 14, 2011 at 8:32 PM
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