Creamy Lemon Filling
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
-
2 Cups
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 1⁄4 cup cornstarch
- 1 cup water
- 2 large egg yolks, lightly beaten
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon, zest of
- 6 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
directions
- Mix together the sugar and cornstarch in a 2 quart heavy saucepan.
- Slowly whisk in the water.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and comes to a boil.
- Continue boiling for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat and spoon 1/2 cup of the cornstarch mixture into the egg yolks, stirring quickly.
- Quickly whisk the egg yolks back into the cornstarch mixture stirring constantly until well mixed.
- Return saucepan to stove and cook over medium heat until thickened about 3 minutes.
- Remove from heat and add butter, lemon juice and zest stirring well.
- Cool before using.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Luby Luby Luby
Lafayette, LA
Living in the south we are very lucky to have an abundance of fresh seafood and other ingredients at our disposal when trying new recipes. My husband and I both love to cook and have learned a lot about cooking from our native Louisianian, Paul Prudhomme (we learned to be very careful with his recipes as they are very spicy - even for us), native New Orleanian, Frank Davis and transplanted Emeril Lagasse. It would be very difficult to pick an all time favorite cookbook since I have approximately 200. I enjoy collecting local cookbooks as well as others from different areas. This picture is obviously when DH and I got married. I cooked all the food and even made my wedding cake.