Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and in this week's episode we are making the
seven best, easy lemon recipes. We have to start of course with lemon curd ... if you've never had
homemade lemon curd you are missing out it is a hundred times better than the store-bought ones.
For all these recipes if I say you need the rind of a lemon just finely grate the yellowy
part off the outside 🍋 you don't want the white bit as that is very bitter. The curd needs the
rind and the juice and then you add the sugar and the eggs and extra egg yolks and i'll write
out all the quantities for the ingredients on my howtocookthat.net website for you so I can give it
to you in grams and ounces and cups. Then you want to microwave that for one minute, then whisk it to
evenly distribute the heat and repeat that three more times and it will become hot and thick like
this then add in the butter and stir that through until it is all melted and then pour it through a
fine sieve into a jar. The sieve just gets out the rind and any pips that we might have missed
so that it will be totally smooth. Store that in the fridge and then eat it on some toast
yum 😍 Next is super easy lemon posit and for this one you put cream and lemon, rind
and sugar into a pan and then heat that up. Heating it up just allows the sugar
to dissolve and it draws the flavour out of the rinds. You do need to keep an eye on it
though and as soon as it starts to bubble take it off the heat so that it doesn't boil over.
Pour it through a sieve to remove the rind and then stir in the lemon juice,
then pour a small amount into serving glasses it's very rich so you don't need much and then you just
put it in the fridge to set. The next day you have this beautiful thick creamy lemon dessert.
Now for lemon pudding this is one of my favorites it's super easy you put sugar lemon juice, lemon
rind, butter, eggs, flour and baking powder into a blender and blitz it all up until it's combined.
Now if you don't have a blender don't worry you can just melt that butter first and whisk it
together by hand in a bowl then you tip that into either individual small bowls or one large one
like i am. Then bake that in the oven until it's golden, how easy is that and when you pull it out
it will be slightly jiggly in the middle still and that's perfect because this is cakey on top
and then underneath ... let me just loosen that from the edges and show you, underneath is this
luscious lemon sauce you're going to want to serve some of that with it and maybe a bit of ice cream.
That is good. Now for Dave's favorite lemon slice to make the crunchy base you need flour,
icing sugar, sugar, butter and lemon rind. Now you could do this next step in a food
processor or by hand if you want to do it by hand you just squash the butter,
cover it in flour and then you just want to rub it between your thumb and your fingers so you're
going to rub the flour into the butter and keep doing that movement until it looks like this.
Tip that into a lined tray and press it down using your hands or the back of a fork and then you want
to bake that in the oven. While it's baking whisk your eggs add in the lemon juice, flour,
salt, cream of tartar, lemon rind and lots of it and you're gonna whisk all of that together.
Then microwave for one minute and then give it a good whisk then give it one minute more
in the microwave and see how thick this is now and that's because you've got the flour
in there and as that heats up it thickens the mixture add the butter and whisk that through.
Now I'm adding the sugar last you could have added at the beginning but everybody has a
personal preference as to how sweet they want lemon slice to be ... some people like it to be
lip puckeringly sour lemon while others prefer it to be really sweet like a lemon candy so
adding it at the end means you can add as much or as little as you like.
Then push the mixture through a fine sieve to get rid of the rind. Now if you're wondering why we
add the rind and then we keep getting rid of it later well there's a lot of lemon-flavored oil in
the rind and by heating it up in the mixture we get some of that oil into our mixture and
it flavors it but the rind itself stays fairly intact and is quite chewy so if you want a smooth
texture you need to get it out. Tip that onto the base and bake it in the oven until it's set
and no longer jiggly, let it cool completely and then cut it through that crispy base
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off your first kit. Now for a classic lemon cheesecake, choose whatever cookies you want
and either put them in a bag and bash them with a rolling pin or use a food processor.
Add the melted butter and mix them together you can use any cookies you want for the
cheesecake base I'm using ginger nuts because i like that ginger flavor with the lemon.
Line a tall straight edged container with baking paper and tip the crumb mixture in and then just
press those crumbs down to make a flat even layer, a bent spoon is great for this job.
Now the trick to getting gelatin with no lumps is to add cold tap water instead of hot water and
immediately stir it around until all the gelatin is wet then you just want to set that aside
until we need it. Whip your cream to soft peaks then in a separate bowl whip your cream cheese.
Having the cream cheese at room temperature makes it softer and much easier to whip. Add the sugar
and the milk and mix that together well, then you want to pour in your lemon juice and of course
mix that through too. Now for the gelatin it will look rubbery like this you want to microwave that
for 30 seconds to melt it. Check that there are no lumps in it anymore and then with the
beaters running pour it in as you whisk it. Add the cream and fold that through lightly
then pour the whole thing into the container on top of the base and then I want you to freeze it.
Once it's frozen you can use the paper on the sides to pull it up
and out of the container. If you're making a flatter cheesecake in a wider round container
instead of a tall one you don't have to freeze it you can just set it in the fridge but freezing it
just makes it easier to handle and move around if you're making a tall one. If you've made some
lemon curd you can spread that on top if not you can add some whipped cream or just leave it plain,
let it defrost in the fridge and then serve it up. You could of course vary this recipe
by adding blueberries raspberries ginger or lime whatever you like all of them would taste great.
Next is the lemon and poppy seed muffins. We want to put the wet ingredients in one bowl and
the dry ingredients in another we've got flour in there and we are adding to that the sugar then the
baking powder and of course the poppy seeds, then into this bowl we're going to tip in the milk,
lemon rind, egg, then the oil and the sour cream or you could use yogurt here instead. Whisk the
dry ingredients to get rid of any lumps and to aerate the mixture then whisk the wet ingredients
until the mixture looks smooth. Tip that into the dry ingredients and mix it together just until you
can't see any more flour you don't want to over mix this. Put the mixture into a lined muffin tin
using an ice cream scoop just helps you to get them all exactly even.
Then bake that for 15 minutes you can eat them just like that or if you like to live on the
sweeter side of life mix together some lemon juice and icing sugar to make a glaze and dip the top of
each muffin into the glaze and there you have a lovely moist lemon and poppy seed muffin.
Now for lemon cookies you're going to need some melted butter, add in this sugar, lemon juice,
lemon rind then the flour and after that the baking powder and stir that together. You
could make these with orange if you prefer rather than lemon we've had a little lemon
today ... roll spoonfuls of dough into balls and put it onto some baking paper and then just use
the palm of your hand to flatten it a little bit and then gently imprint each one using a fork
and then bake those in the oven and once they're cooled they are nice and crispy lemon cookies.
If i was coming over to your house today which one of these recipes would you like me to bring?
If you want some more simple recipes check out some of these other ones here ... with thanks
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