So today I made curd! Never done that before. Never made jam, well that's not exactly true I made a killer sweet chilli jam a couple of years back but can I find the recipe now...no! Anyway, I've never made sweet jam or curd of any sort before, my mum is the queen of jam making in the family and keeps me supplied so I've never felt the need to make it for myself, that is until mum gave me a whole load of fresh root ginger - on sale at the parents local market - thanks, I think! Not wanting to let it go to waste I checked my "Recipes to try" file (yes I have one of those!) on the old laptop to see if I'd saved anything worthy...and there it was....this! Great, let's give that a go I thought to myself.
I had nearly everything I needed except the grapefruit so I went and purchased, recipe read: twice (I never normally do that), then measured/squeezed/weighed/separated all the ingredients (again I never normally do that either, think my addiction to watching Masterchef Australia is having an effect on me!) and set to work.
Here's the evidence (not the fanciest of food styling photography but informative none the less I feel):
As you can see from the carnage on the chopping board it took 2 grapefruit, a lemon and I'd say about a 4cm piece of ginger. Also for anyone from the UK/Europe that butter measurement in the recipe is 2 1/2oz or 71grams
Double boiler - that I know how to do...tick!
"stir until it coats the back of a spoon" well, that seems to have happened, this is promising!
Arty shot of my whisk, because I love that whisk!
In the last 30seconds of the 10minutes of stiring, this happened. Is that right? Who knows but let's roll with it - looks like custard, and that's I think what curd should look like. Then I got paranoid that the mixture was too runny, Googled "does lemon curd thicken as it cools?" Answer according to the www = yes it does! OK, that's good, but do you let it cool before pouring into jars or not? Go with your gut instinct girl! Which was let it stop steaming and pour into jam jars.
Ta-da!! Not bad for first ever attempt eh?
This recipe has now been moved to the "sucessful recipe" file (yeah I got one of those too, I know you're jealous!)
Next try at curd may have to be this, which GD sent me the other day....we'll see!Happy weekend.
GD*BG
