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Default Overused ingredients


"Janet" > wrote in message
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> In article >, says...
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>> "David Dyer-Bennet" > wrote in message
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>> > These all have some similarities to lemon curd, which is mostly an
>> > ingredient in other things.

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>> I bought some expensive lemon curd once. It was extremely acidic.

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> I make lemon curd, to eat as a spread on toast.


Oddly, I've never had lemon curd on toast. It sounds very good.

> Or between two layers
> of lemon drizzle cake. It's just eggs sugar butter and lemons, so it's a
> short-life product (three weeks max in the fridge). Dead easy to make.
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http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/m...emon-curd.html
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> I never buy it because commercial versions are made to last forever and
> taste like crap.


Lots of preservatives I guess. Good to know.


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