Lemon Dessert Sauce

Submitted by Andrea

"I love this sauce on gingerbread or fresh fruit, especially strawberries. It is also good on pound cake and ice cream."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 1 cup

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 4 teaspoons cornstarch
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1⁄4 cup fresh lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 grated lemon, rind of
• 1 pinch salt

directions

1. Mix sugar and cornstarch in a small saucepan.
2. Stir in boiling water and lemon juice.
3. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
4. Boil 3 minutes until clear and thick.
5. Remove from heat and stir in butter, lemon rind and salt.

Reviews

[Julesong]

A nice, simple sauce. Good on poundcake, just as she said! :) Easy to make.

 

[redwine]

This recipe is more of a tart lemon sauce, which is what I was looking for. I made it to serve with homemade gingerbread. Super quick to put together. Reading other reviews, saying they upped the cornstarch amount, I added a bit more. I used 5 tsp total. Worked great ! I will use this sauce on other desserts as well.

 

[Mirj2338]

I think there's too much cornstarch in here, the sauce thickened up so fast and was not pourable at all, had more of a spreadable texture to it. I would cut the constarch down to 2 1/2 teaspoons, and just keep it over a low flame constantly stirring until it got the right consistency. It's basically a good sauce, just needs to be more "saucy".

 

[orfanella]

I love lemon! So after purchasing a lemon sponge pie at a local farmer's market, I was disappointed that it had very little lemon flavor. I decided to top the pie with a lemon sauce and in searching, found this recipe. It's delicious! The reviews vary from too thin to too thick. I think this could be due to how people measure the cornstarch...level, rounded or heaping teaspoon. My lemon produced slightly more than 1/4 cup of juice so I used 5 tsps., slightly rounded. The sauce is just right in consistency for serving now. If it becomes too thick after being refrigerated, I'll add a bit more lemon or lime juice, depending what I have in the fridge.

 

[barba day]

I found this sauce to have great flavor, but I would surely increase the cornstarch, which makes a very very thin sauce. I doubled the cornstarch the second time around and it turned out wll.